A woman about to leave London for New Zealand was advised to provide herself with very warm clothing.
"Why?" she asked.
"Oh, it's awfully cold out there, don't you know!" replied the adviser. "It's the place where all the frozen mutton comes from!"—Montreal "Star."
In Other Words Tue visitor was criticizing wireless programmes.
"They use so much slang," he protested. "There's one phrase specially that annoys me—'the stuff to give the troops."
"T agree with you," said the host, "that slang should not receive official recognition."
"What would you like em to say?" chipped in the 16-year-old son of the house. "Some. thing like this: 'In my considered opinion it is a commodity eminently suitable for unrestricted distribution among the armed forces of the Crown'?"
Ice-green Eyes Swe admired....her level ice-green eyes.—Page 19.
She was thinking of her level ice-green eyes..—Page 31. 5 Her level ice-green eyes were twinkling.—Page 58.
But the level ice-green eyes held their familiar calm, dispassionate glint of disapproval.—Page 59.
There was a faint gleam of impatience, now, in the level ice-green eyes—Page 61.
"the level ice green eyes holding only the glint of merriment and audacity.—Page 68.
Her level ice-green eyes held that familiar glint of calm, dispassionate disapproval—Page ..the thoughts that were racing behind the level ice-green eyes of the little icy princess,—Page 75.
... Taising her white eyelids...to flash an ice-green glance of appreciation....—Page 78.
She merely turned her level ice-green eyes 20 her father's smiling face—Page 87.
For she always felt as transparent as plate glass under little Olivia's level ice-green gaze.—Page 161.
She was meeting her daughter's level ice-green gaze very steadily—Page 162.
Her eyes dropped, however, before the level ice-green gaze—Page 165.
Her level ice-green eyes looked cool and remote and rather entertained—Page 195.—From "Westward Passage," by Margaret Ayer Barnes,
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