margarine-and-spot-cash

Updated: July 14, 2025

You got out usually ten minutes late at a smoke-grimed station, and emerged into a wide thoroughfare, lined on either side with shops of the margarine-and-spot-cash variety, and horrible with the screeching and rattling of gigantic municipal trams, which appeared to run solely for the pleasure of the motorman and conductor.

Stanley Portal Hyatt - People of Position