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...past two years selling the S. S. with phenomenal success in California and Florida. As every swank Briton knows, there are few cars on His Majesty's roads swanker than an S. S. Not to know what these initials mean is as odd in Mayfair as to appear puzzled when someone mentions the P. M. (Prime Minister). S. S. once stood for Standard Swallow, now stands simply for S. S. Ltd. Last week Pioneer Taylor chalked up an amazing record at the close of Manhattan's Motor Show. From an obscure stand on the top floor among...
...this pioneering boomlet : Every S. S. is guaranteed to do between 85 and 90 m. p. h., between 20 and 25 miles per gallon, comes equipped with extremely low-slung English four-seater bodies having slide-open "sunshine roofs," cocktail trays opening behind the front seat and other Mayfair niceties. Finally an S. S. has won the premier award at every Concours d'Elégance Automobile held for the past four years in Cannes, Deauville and Biarritz...
...MAYFAIR SUBSCRIPTION AGENCY...
Little Dancer Mitzi Mayfair, in blue spangled pajamas, making her legs fly around like pin-wheels...
...MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have lulled his fighting Scotch radicalism. The laborite has become respectable...