Word: rovere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will There Be Rover Boys in Utopia...
...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...
...Stratemeyer says in his preface: "My Dear Boys . . . This line of books was started years ago with The Rover Boys at School . . . in which I introduced Dick, Tom and Sam Rover and their chums and relatives. . . . Having finished their education, the three young men established themselves in business and became married (to boyhood sweethearts). Later Dick Rover was blessed with a son and daughter, as was also his brother Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the father of a pair of lively twin boys." Dick, Tom, and Sam now live in adjacent dwellings on Riverside Drive. They would...
...roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple lives are a constant succession of triumphs over scheming bullies at a rival military academy, bears, wildcats, inertia and German plotters who attempt to purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would have been no accident) crashes into a lake in the first chapter till the last (which holds promise of yet another sequel, The Rover Boys Shipwrecked or A Thrilling Hunt for Pirate's Gold...
...Recitations is more serious ? in its purpose. Serious? Death, Villainy, Madness, the Grave here find their own. The soldier of the Legion is dying in Algiers, Sir Ralph the Rover visits the Inchcape Rock, "Charge Chester, charge!" "'We are lost!' the captain shouted as he stag gered down the stairs." Less well known morceaux deal with Blood (in quantity), with Wicked Atheists, with the Last Few Remarks of Pious Children...