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Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13? per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8?. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4? per hour in England; 2.16? here...
...duty and a tool. They gave influence to his affluence. He was one of Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George's War cabinet. Later he was to bolt the Liberal Party, declare himself a Conservative and fret Lloyd George into sneering that he had abandoned the Liberals because "he saw poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them (TIME...
Last week in Miami, Fla., blackmen shook their heads, "reckoned they couldn't find no way to vote no-how." Miami's 40,000 Negroes never fret much about white men's elections, but somehow they had, counted on marking crosses on nice new ballots in the April elections. A committee of three leading citizens of the black belt, suave in manner, impeccable in dress, called on the city commission. The Hannibal of the trio made a dignified advance. He said...
...Perhaps they are. And perhaps that is why they enjoy themselves so intensely. Certainly there is a contagious thrill to newspaper work quite as keen on the Crimson as on any metropolitan. daily. One has the run of seeing events all meetings people at fret traid or, as Philip Gibbs has expressed it, of sitting in a front seat at the peep show of life...
When the Queen-Empress returned from this function she found Baby Betty in a teething fret, with Nurse Knight attempting to sooth her. Three days later the Princess cut her first tooth...