Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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Gullion, who discoursed on the Current Trend of Current Bolshe Vikings.
The refreshing episode consisted of champagne and Saratoga chips. CHAPTER VIII The Restless Sexteen was the record altitude of Butterfly Center. It was the elect and select of the intellect; it was the whole show--the very Wholly of Whollies. To belong to it was canonization. Though some of its members also belonged to the Toddletopsis Club, it meant their leading a double life. The Restless Sexteen were mostly young married women with their husbands as nonresident members. They studied higher psychology and broader psychopathy. The wrestled with and threw Einstein and let themselves dream again with Freud. Psychoanalysis was their washpot, and over the fourth dimension did they cast their shoes. Their afternoon digest was held at Faith Loveman's and Warble went. The Loveman home was an abstract bungalow, which showed rather plainly the iron hand in the velvet glove influence of the Japanese. The large light hall had a built-in abstract table, and on this was an enormous bronze plaque which held a thin layer of water on which rested |
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