a politician's tone-deaf remarks about the price of bread

The houses, made of brick and siding, are generally smaller one- and two-family dwellings, many semidetached.

At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick, with his bug, as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.

Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead