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...sunk to a respectable job as a second lead in the Opera-Comique-and Gigi's guardians (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) are taking no chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper way to eat an ortolan ("Bad table manners have broken up more homes than infidelity"); 2) the proper method of assaying a jewel ("Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals!"); 3) the proper attitude toward marriage (''Instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married...
...Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...
...claim to such jurisdiction. a. On natural grounds, because sea cannot be defended from the shore; Wharton's Digest of Int. Law of U. S., Vol. III, ch. 2, sec. 26, 33; Schuyler's American Diplomacy, p. 404; Queen vs. Keyn, L. R., 2 Exch., Div. 63; Ortolan, Diplomatie de la Mer, Lib. 2, Ch. 7; Hautefeuilie Droits et Devoirs des Nations Neutres, Tom 1, tit. 1, ch. 3, sec. 1; Kluber, Droit des Gens, sec. 130 (ed. 1861); Angell, Forum, Nov. 1889, p. 231. b. On historical grounds because Russia did not enforce exclusive jurisdiction; Ukase of Sept...
...change of circumstances and conditions justifies the abrogation of the treaty.- Wharton's Digest 2, pp. 238 et seq; Lawrence's Essays in Int. Law, 142; Tucker's Monroe Doctrine, p. 73; Pomeroy's Int. Law, sec. 281, Ortolan, vol. 1, 99; Heffter, sec. 98, p. 221; Bluntschli, 239, 256; Hautefeuille, vol. 1, pp. 8-10; Hall's Int. Law C. X. (2) The welfare of the United States demands the maintenance of the "Monroe Doctrine."- The Inter-Oceanic Canal and the Monroe Doctrine, in House Reports, 3d sess., 46 Cong., 1, p. 224; Pres. Hayes'message, March...
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