* * * Omnibus Insults.
Ingenious and generous publishers are steadily popularising the " omnibus " volume which packs between covers two or more novels by one or more writers. Was not the Forsyte Saga......
As The World Goes
GESTURES OF ECONOMY A regiment of Guards has marked the epoch of patriotic economy by marching, amidst popular applause, from Aldershot to Windsor. This fine gesture has......
* * * * Last Week's International Shoe And Leather
Fair has con- vinced exhibitors that women's feet are not larger than they used to be, but merely that women are no longer ashamed of large feet. I believe this, since I heard......
On Being A Water-diviner
BY PETER FLEMING. I CONFESS that I had always treated water-diviners as a joke. The humour that (God forgive me I) I saw in their profession was not the rich, full-blooded......
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WHAT TO RENOUNCE. It was suggested, the other day, that almost the only way of harming oneself, without hurting anybody else, is to refuse to take a pension one doesn't need. A......
As To Pensions. It Is Rumoured That Many Patriots Have
already written to the Pensions Office renouncing theirs, or bits of them. These letters must make a refreshing change for the officials who are accustomed to the other or com-......
Frequent Phrase : " It Ought To Be Possible." It
annoys him. I sympathize. But we know what it means. There are other, less intelligible offenders. I should like to select one or two of the commonest, each week. At the moment......
In Spite Of A Proclaimed National Unity, We Have To
face weeks of political oratory. For the orators' sakes I urge newspaper proof-readers to watch for misprints in the speeches of the candidates they support. For one descends so......
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