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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917"


* * *
The National Service staff at St. Ermin's Hotel, Westminster, has been
reduced by half. It is now expected that the unemployed half will
volunteer for National Service.
* * *
Berlin announces that all through-lines in Germany are running. The
case of the HINDENBURG Line seems to be infectious.
* * *
"No cheese," says _The Evening News_, "has quite the bite of Cheddar."
At the same time, unless it wags its tail to show that it is friendly,
we feel that every cheese with a bite like that would be much safer if
muzzled.
* * *
Triplets were born in Manchester last week. The father is going on as
well as can be expected.
* * *
Complaint has been made by a member of the Hounslow Burial Committee
of courting couples occupying seats in the cemetery. The killjoy!
* * *
We can only suppose it was the hot weather that tempted a newsagent
correspondent to ask whether Lord NORTHCLIFFE had gone to America on
"sail or return."
* * *
Mr. BALFOUR, we are told, while staying at Washington, visited eleven
public buildings and interviewed nine representative Americans on one
day.


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