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The New Standard models have a new engine with 23 per cent more horse-power, and an improved chassis frame. The bodies have been made more spacious, and all closed models have flat floors in the rear compartment, eliminating the ridge which formerly existed. Redesigned dials, behind concave glass that...
There was a pawing Suffolk Punch stallion in gold-plated bronze. Its eyes were of ivory and onyx and lapis lazuli bows tied its braided mane. Baroque in muscle and violence, it was Sudbourne Premier, Britain's famed champion (1921-24). There was Haseltine's first champion job...
From his Kentish grave William Gilbert Grace, M. D., last week must have wanted to cry approbation for the thought which the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science (continuing its York meeting) gave to the subject of cricket bats. Dr. Grace's father, uncle, and four brothers...
A clerk interrupted. Yes he would like something, a pipe, a straight grained pipe. What was the fellow gazing at him for. He repeated, "a straight grained pipe." Come, come, such a house as Dunhill's must have heard of a wood with a straight grain. They had. Worse they...
He got a very poor pipe for four and six which he lost on the boat coming home. But he had learned what make the English a great, comfortable, contented, conservative nation. Their love of things, their rare ability to love old wines, and high game, and fine linens, and...