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...000th "document," deposited quite unceremoniously last week, consisted of a packet of notes exchanged between Norway and Sweden respecting the continuance of the Swedish-Norwegian Arbitration Convention of 1905. Statisticians observed that 940 treaties have already been published by the League Secretariat, in 35 volumes of 400 pages each. Further they noted that all these documents have been published in French and English, and additionally in the language of origin when that happens to be neither French nor English. To date, Germany though not a member of the League has made heavy contributions to the documents on register...
...followed several of them as they fled along a street. In a courtyard they were dividing their booty. One had bread, one a herring, one a packet of cigarets, one chocolate, one nothing. But all was put in the centre and divided equally. Then they began eating hungrily...
...Half Way Girl. Explosion inspectors found the demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...
...impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
...alleged that M. Daeschner bowed, pressed a packet of papers into the President's hands and burst forth into felicitous words, as follows...