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Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...
Paraguay is among the world's most backward lands. Her yearly exports and imports approximately balance at the trifling figure of $14,000,000. Rivers are the only important highways. The sole famed landed proprietor is Tex Rickard...
...lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood...
Speaking on the subject "Cabbages and Kings" Dr. Erickson will talk on the conditions now existent in Albania, until recently one of the most backward countries in Europe. During his activity as an independent worker in this country for most of the past 20 years, he has had an opportunity to observe first hand, financial, agricultural, commercial, and political conditions...