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...will reaffirm the sacredness of the three-mile limit for territorial water. In this manner the question of preventing rum smuggling is entirely divorced from the legal restriction of three miles on territorial waters?the restriction which Britain would not waive...
...Barr McCutcheon?Dodd Mead ($2.00). Oliver October Baxter had his fortune told by a gipsy the day he was born. She promised him all the court-cards in old Miss Lachesis' desk?but said he would be hung before he was 30. The prophecy was fulfilled, and the ingenious manner of its working out forms the theme of a typical McCutcheon thriller...
...snakes-dance. When Ashur-Nemid and Ozod-Pidach stole up behind their rivals and stabbed them in the back, Ozod put his hands on Ashur's shoulders and they whisked about triumphantly among the trees. No doubt Moses and his brethren rejoiced in much the same manner when they had safely crossed the Red Sea. The Greeks zigzagged madly about in their frenzied religious celebrations...
...even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner of Will Rogers that Mr. Washburn thought good enough to center in italics in the middle of his pages. Will Rogers still sleeps soundly.) "Had the League of Nations become the power it was planned he would not have dallied with the Presidency but he would have stepped immediately...
...Exchange speakers, provided they stick to facts and are not anti-everything can do much to promote proper Anglo American relations. Lloyd George has been of unlimited value by presenting England in a tactful and proper manner...