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...tick" (credit), selling "on tick" and buying "on tick," the Parliamentary Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department, one Arthur M. Samuel, "ticked off" (reprimanded) a London Chamber of Commerce meeting for countenancing within the United Kingdom "the habit of installment buying," which he called "a trade built upon sand...
Author James Stevens, onetime hobo teamster, of Tacoma, Wash., is famed as the chronicler of superhuman Paul Bunyan, the mythical hero of North American lumber camps. Author Stevens is an authority on other mythical creatures of North America including lava bears, sand gougers, lightning birds, waumpus cats, treehoppers and minktums (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926, BOOKS). Last week, announcement was made of another Stevens extravaganza, an allegorical U. S. fable entitled "Staggerbear and Guzzlenot" which Plain Talk, the monthly magazine publishing it, condensed for publicity purposes as follows...
...ordinary way of making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they...
...drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...
Down the beach sands at Brunswick, Ga., the plane started. It roared, rushed along, stopped. It was wheeled back and tried again. This time it cleared the sand, mounted easily and soon was a narrowing speck to the southward...