A contemporary captions the photograph of a good looking gurrl "To be or not to be husband of George Brent was the question which pretty Constance Worth, film actress, pondered in Los Angeles court."
Little problems like that require a great deal of thinking over.
The Better Way "Territory occupied by the Japanese in the Shanghai area was looted by retreating Chinese with a fine tooth comb, and nothing is left for
sell." whatever civilians still living in the area to Personally we have always found when we have been doing our looting that a good-sized motor lorry is infinitely better than a fine tooth comb, A Question of Degree Waimes a correspondent, whose identity we gravely suspect, to a contemporary:
It may be said that the Japanese committed also a breach of the Agreement of 1932 by allowing some small units of their own marines, permanently stationed in Shanghai, to carry on manœuvres outside the limits of the International Settlement. If such is the case, a technical offence was also certainly committed.
Quite! The point he is trying to make ip that this technical offence is very much like the servant-girl's baby—"Only a very little one, mum."
A Purely Personal Matter Ir was only a few weeks ago that In ParENTHESIS addressed a request to the high commands of both sides that they should lay off for a couple of weeks or so. The circumstances dictating the request were as follow. (Two of our budgerigars got to talking things Over, as budgerigars will on occasion do, As a result of the conversations the lady got busy with her nesting box, and we in our request.anticipated things. Well, we were quite right, knowing something about the ways -of budgerigars, and yesterday morning the: boy walked in and reported "Two small piece ei'gus. hab got" Now it is a well known act. aat birds, when going through the process of inë creasing their family, desire quite a large amount of quiet, and that is what they are not getting just now. Let us impress upon the two commands that we cannot breed budgerigars with all this noise going on, and either they will have to stop kicking up all this row, or we shall have to stop breeding budgerigars!
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