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...sequel to the nth power - the 27th item in a series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga - The Rover Boys at Big Bear Lake or The Camps of the Rival Cadets...
...Best Rodeo - The West a-Hootin' August and New York, we understand, will see one of the biggest and best exhibitions of a certain Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that...
...conference at Lausanne struck another snag last week when the Ottoman debt came up for discussion. The various Allied representatives had to refer the question to their home governments; thus a delay was occasioned...
...That, as opponents of the World Court freely suggest, the limitation of Mr. Harding's speechmaking is brought about by the solicitation of his friends, who do not wish him to have too much opportunity to refer to his proposal. If he made a return speaking tour, he might be forced into a heated defense of the World Court by the animadversions of opponents against his speeches...
...Guinea the natives refer to all girls as " Mary's" - to go a-wooing is going " to catch a Mary," according to a professional woman traveller recently returned...