Flax handkerchiefs composed in chief value of edgings and insertings of cotton lace made on the Lever or Gothrough machine are properly dutiable at the rate of 70 per cent […]

Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.

Much the same could be said for the drummer Gerald Cleaver, who brought a lot of color and soloistic ideas into his steady time.

So was a generation bred, more and more incapable of serious reading, of serious reflection, even of a primitive kind. Francis Thompson, a shrewd observer of his age, noted and shuddered at the growing popularity of the new goddess, Gelasma.