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Between the pudgy, rheumatic yet capable fingers of a great statesman a pen quivered. Aristide Briand was signing, last week, a cablegram to Frank Billings Kellogg. This was the third vital stroke in a game of diplomatic shuttlecock played since last spring between the Foreign Minister of France and the U. S. Secretary of State...
...null & void, that his fortune must be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for management. Said Judge Knox: "He [Mr. Barnett] is a harmless, kindly, mentally undeveloped man, who was extremely bored at the court proceedings and had no comprehension of their significance. . . . He has been the shuttlecock in a game of battledore in which the stakes were high...
...court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock with the daughter of divorcees. POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The rise and fall of Jud Siisz, great Jew. SORREL AND SON - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). How a son justified his father's confidence...
Seldom has the twentieth century seen so remarkable a growth in popularity of one particular sport as in the case of squash racquets. Ever since the war, this youngest child of battledoor and shuttlecock has been gaining adherents until now it is rated as one of the most popular games being played in England. Perhaps the fact that the Prince of Wales is a devotee is partly responsible for the huge attendances at the twelve tournaments which are held annually in England. And women have accepted the sport with an enthusiasm which women rarely evidence in person al athletics...
Chairman John H. Uhl, John Johnson, President of the International Correspondence School and the nestors of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania, spent a busy week talking, traveling. They were members of the Citizens' No Strike Committee, which presented itself as a battledore and shuttlecock between the estranged parties to an impending anthracite coal strike...