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Within the last two years installment buying in Great Britain has grown to large proportions and at present companies are being organized to finance it. Radios and furniture are the principle articles so sold, but at the largest automobile show ever held in London (at the Olympia) "motor cars" were largely sold on the installment plan...
...letter to the Federal Radio Commission about Eric H. Palmer Jr.: ". . .I do not believe he has seen the sunlight in three months. He transmits all night and goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s operating license...
...dexterity of the band; My, she opines, they certainly know their P's and Q's. Yes, replies the long suffering relative, and their D's and H's. Her own belief is that the young lady in front has been taking rum for a cold and consequently has grown evorish. Slow, heavy, this number can he relied upon to hold her own by sheer onderous weight...
...thoughts are a tissue of memories,, remembrances of bright small faces, of intense childish devotions, of games of hide-and-seek, all woven together in a dark shining maze, blown and changing like the leaves on an autumn lawn. Then suddenly she hears that the children next door, grown up now, are coming back to live in the old house. Charlie, the most beautiful of them all, was killed in the War, but there will be Marietta, whom Charlie had astoundingly married, and the three boys, Martin & Roddy & Julian. Always these three crowded her mind, always she was held apart...
This time she had grown up to them. When Roddy said, "I love you," Judith forgot his warning. When he met her the next day he said, "I thought that was what you wanted: what you were asking for. . . . I'm sorry, I apologize. I . . . ." She said good-by to Roddy and let Martin think she would marry him. Then she broke her engagement and went to France, whither Julian followed her to ask her to be his mistress. This, too, was a dusty answer to what she desired. In England she went to meet Jennifer again, but Jennifer...