A. fly buzzes its wings at the rate of 352 times a second. Tho Berlin Law Courts have just decided that a landlord is not entitled in any circumstances to evict the wlfo of a soldier on ictive service for nonpayment of rent, "If anyone thinks that we have not many stern lessons yet to learn .lie need onlv let his eyes rest on the- vsst crowds that day by day throng the shops! It is bewildering here m London," writes Christopher Cheshire in the "Commonwealth," "Oxford Street is ono solid block of buyers; the pavement is impassable; round the windows people swarm like flies. It is the same everywhere; all over the West, End there are the same keen, pushing, tense, greedy multitudes. It is an uglv, nnpleasing vision, the whole place smells of coin. No piice is too high, no bargain too stiir. Everywhere Mammon is master and vulgarity ascendant. . . ■ The best mind from the front loathes the whole scene."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 8
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