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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Well, he said your father had a mortgage on his farm up to the time you came to work in the bank, then suddenly it was paid and soon after the house was painted, a new bathroom installed, electric lights put into the house and steam heat, a Victrola and an automobile bought.
The only way that this War can be made holy is by making it so thorough that war will be finished for all time. Papa at least will be awake by now. How familiar the old house seems to me I can think of the place of every picture. Do you set the victrola going now-a-days? I bet you play Boys in Khaki, Boys in Blue.
Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?" "I give up!" The scholar's chagrin was comical. "I have no inner realization." For the first time, perhaps, he understood that discerning placement of the comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. "These bloodless pedants smell unduly of the lamp," my guru remarked after the departure of the chastened one.
The reason for the little slippers became apparent later, when she insisted upon teaching him the dancing-steps that were to be used in a final splendid assembly after the pageant. There was intoxication in the delight of moving with her through the dreamy steps to the music of the expensive Victrola she set going.
Irene herself was very discreet, and "managed" George Pointer admirably so that she had a great deal of freedom, and he was perfectly content. At last the men drifted back and stood in a row before the blazing fire. Archie had in the victrola once more and tried to start them dancing, but the hall was too crowded with furniture and the drawing-room could not be used.
Christmas Day at Brookside was an event long to be remembered, for not only had Bob the pleasure of explaining to his mother and father the work they had been doing all summer and telling them of their plans for the coming year, but during the afternoon a large auto truck arrived at the house and unloaded a fine piano and victrola, the latter with a dozen well-selected records.
My supplies are kept up by the courage and devotion of the Staff-Captain and Billy, who, taking their lives in their hands, bring the Ford with supplies along the shell-torn road at great peril. Capt. Corliss also came. During the day, the officer of Battery F wanted the Victrola and got the use of it in their dugout for three days.
The girl's harp a masterpiece by Pestalozzi of Venice stood at one side; on the other, a five hundred dollar Victrola, with a wonderful repertoire of records. But the grand piano itself dominated all, especially made for Catherine by Durand Frères, in Paris, and imported on the Billionaire's own yacht, the "Bandit."
The situation has become extreme and I must end it. It happened last night. Beverly-Jones took me aside while the others were dancing the fox-trot to the victrola on the piazza. "We're planning to have some rather good fun to-morrow night," he said, "something that will be a good deal more in your line than a lot of it, I'm afraid, has been up here.
After dinner they all snapped costume crackers and adorned themselves with the caps that they discovered inside them, and they set the new Victrola going and danced the butterfly dance that they had learned at Chautauqua and had given at their entertainment for the Christmas Ship.
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