It Is All Very Well To Talk About The Majesty
of English law, but any ass knows perfectly well that even magistrates must turn a blind eye from time to time. No doubt if the people responsible in the Oxford Street shop had......
Before He Took Silk His Progress From Chambers To The
Law Courts was a stirring sight. At a canter, arms flailing, booted and bowler-hatted, he would be seen discoursing loudly to his retinue, which consisted of two clerks and four......
Mr. Sam Goldwyn, Who Is In London At The Moment,
often maintains that he is misquoted, but so many epigrams have been tagged to his name that they can't all have been made up. My own favourite is the one where someone argued......
Political Commentary
By CHARLES CURRAN T ait: most popular song in Britain at the moment is called I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas. It seems to sum up the Trades Union Congress at Brighton this......
A Spectator's Notebook
LORD CILCENNIN has so often had his fleet sunk under him by the press that the news that he had at last been succeeded at the Admiralty by Lord Hailsham came almost as a......
The Fairey Fireflash, Which Was On View At Farnborough This
week, is obviously a very ingenious invention; a credit to its makers, to British workmanship, and to the British aviation industry. But 1 hardly think it was wise of the......
Collins Heard Of Fangio's Trouble When He Pulled In For
a routine tyre change. 'I won't race any more,' he said at once, 'Fangio can have my car.'—News Chronicle, September 3. 'FANGIO said to him, "Will you let me take over your car?......
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