Anyone, I Suppose, Is Entitled To Use Any Word For
which the Concise Oxford Dictionary gives warrant. But I could wish the Treasury, or one of its officials, wouldn't assure a respectable citizen—actually, indeed, a Conservative......
A Spectator's Notebook R Arely Has Had Any Government Met...
such universal condemnation in the Press as greeted the Prime Minister's statement last Monday. The Daily Herald did its dutiful best to defend what could not be defended, b..it......
Funking The Fences
N EVER has this Government failed the country so utterly as it has this week. There is no excuse for its abdication, and there should be no condonation of it. Knowing what......
Mr. Zilliacus Has Compressed His Well-known Views On...
policy into 504 pages (of a Penguin Special). This is a very considerable achievement. JANUS.......
A Case In The Courts This Week Concerning Tips Was,
unhappily, decided the wrong way—by which I mean the wrong way in equity, though no doubt it was the right way in law. The Catering Wages Commission and the Wages Boards......
General Paget Has Not Had Long To Wait For A
new appointment. Governorship of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea will in itself give little scope for his qualities, but it should leave him leisure to continue in one form or the......
Useful Phrases Should Be Noted Down As They Come To
hand ; c.g., " Most of us will agree with what the hon. member for Kirkcaldy has been saying, not only in respect of corporal punish- ment, in which I, with perhaps a beatable......
The Public Who Descended Like Locusts On The London Shops
at the end of last week can hardly have known what they thought they were gaining. Probably escape from an increased purchase-tax or from clothes-rationing, though the President......
The Death Of Mr. George Bcttany, Publishers'...
the Spectator, will be regretted equally by his colleagues on the Spectator, the publishers with whom he came into intimate touch and the wide circles who enjoyed the many......
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