From a Pimlico shop window:—

"Gentlemen's War robes Bought."

Apparently not worth a "d."


"Professor ——, the pianist, who is trying to complete 110 hours' continuous playing, completed fifty-five hours on the first day."

Cologne Post.

That makes it too easy.


"Mme. Karsavina is taller than Pavlova, but has an equally perfect figure. The Greeks would have bracketted her with Venus and Aphrodite."—Provincial Paper.

The two last have, of course, been constantly bracketed.