trade-notices

Updated: May 7, 2025

It is odd that the nation that has given us so much epigrammatic slang and the telegraph and the telephone and the typewriter should have so little of what might be called intellectual short-hand. But so it is. Too many Americans are remorseless when they are making themselves clear. Yet the passion for printed idiomatic sententiousness and arresting trade-notices is visible all the time.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - Roving East and Roving West