"Few people realise the difficulty senior officers in the Navy
who are married and have children have in making both ends
meet. Naval officers who entered over fifteen years ago did
not, as a rule, come from the married classes."--_Sunday
Paper_.
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"Whilst waiting to be bathed, an old blind female inmate of
the ---- Institution fell to the floor, breaking her
thigh. Her injury has accentuated her death from
bronchitis."--_Birmingham Post_.
With a grave accent, we fear.
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"The war broke Germany's hold on world's wild animal trade,
the New York Zoological Society chairman states. Zoos and
circuses are now turning to British dealers to fill their
cages."--_Evening Paper_.
Provided that the above paragraph has made the British dealers
sufficiently wild.