"--_Evening Paper_.
Still, we should like to know the nature of the explosive that blew
Algeciras across the Straits.
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KINSMEN AND NAMESAKES.
An official circular, commenting on the presentation at the Scala, in
film form, of _The Crisis_, by Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL, the American
novelist, adds the interesting statement, "the author is of course a
distant cousin of the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P."; This sounds
a little ungracious. Why "of course _distant_?" But perhaps the gifted
novelist shares the opinion held by Lord BERESFORD of the politician
who did not write _The Crisis_, but is always trying to make one.
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From the account of a military wedding in _The West London Press_:--
"The bridegroom was wearing a simple draped gown of lavender-blue
crepe georgette, with a mushroom-shaped hat in the same shade,
wreathed with small coloured flowers and draped with a blue lace
veil."
Some mufti!
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"When the Lord Provost ruled that the mater was not urgent, the
Labourists created something of a scene.
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