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Pictures in the Fire
... THERE is an old and very sage saying that a drunken man gets sober, but that a B.F. never gets wise. Our judiciary still keeps up the legal fiction that it does not know for what these letters stand, any more than it is prepared to admit what the letters N.B.G. mean. It is only when a dis- tinguished lawyer is elevated to the Bench that his mind becomes a complete blank where these matters of ...
ON WORMS
... ORIGINAL research in this field has hitherto been very meagre, though some very sound experimental work has been carried out by Professor Melton Mowbray in helping to determine whether worms in turning veer naturally due south to Cannes and Monte 'Carlo, or south-south-east towards Venice. Few really big thinkers had studied worms with any enthusiasm until their attention was drawn to them by ...
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
... MRS. JONES went out shopping. When she returned, she saw that the Post Office engineers had arrived with their van outside her house. There they were, to her disgust, with a pole and a hole in the ground. Whereupon she proceeded to tell them all about it. ...
PETROL VAPOUR: The Hitch-biker
... GIVING lifts is good form in wartime, although even the most patriotic can't be blamed for taking their pick of what pedestrianism is about. And, anyway, a tramp is accustomed to legging it, while a good-looking typist is not. Well, the other day I met a hitch-biker, which was a new one on me. He waved becomingly beside his bicycle at the foot of a two-mile climb, and I stopped to find out ...
Debenham & Freebody
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The Critic
... Drawn by Captain -Bruce Bairnsfather for Armistice Day, 1939 ...
Women in Uniform: V.A.D. Headquarters at the Duke and Duchess of Kent's House in Belgrave Square
... Women in Uniform V.A.D. Headquarters at the Duke and Duchess of Kent's House in Belgrave Square 1. The enquiry department is in the marble-floored hall of 3, Belgrave Square well warmed by radiators under the windows. Miss M. Naylor Smith and Lady Olein Wyndham-Quin daughter of the Karl of Dunraven are the officers in charge. Their V.A.D. assistant is Miss A. T. Chambers. All V.A.D.s on full ...