The Archive · 1922

Ar THE Dinner Taste

"An ordinary Canadian," was Sir Hamar Greenwood's description of himself at the London Wastonian dinner. He had taken no great prizes at school or university. "The only prize I ever took in my life," he said, "was at Sunday school. It was a pair of carpet slippers and a tract on 'Sideslips to Hell.' By judicious use of the slippers and continuous use of the tract, here I am."

The chairman at the Edinburgh Motor Trade dinner said that the motor vehicle was evidently regarded by the Government as "a later edition of the Beast of the Apocalypse, which after being

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