In most English villages, as we are informed, bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalks; and the hand-books issued by English manufacturers of bicycles caution their customers that it is a forbidden practice, while in many places bells have to be attached to the bicycles even when ridden in the streets.

‘What sort of bullying does this sergeant go in for?’ ‘Character assassination,’ she said in a matter-of-fact tone that belied the very real difficulties it was causing her. ‘There’s a lot of whispering about slags and tarts behind my back and sniggers whenever I appear. Half of the men seem to think I’m a dyke who needs curing, the other half think I’m the platoon bicycle. …’

“Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.

In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.

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a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Bicycle

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