"They were manufacturers of aeroplanes--in their opinion
the best aeroplanes in the world and the most suited for
commercial lying."--_Provincial Paper_.
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"A hospital nurse interrupted evidence given in Portuguese at
Thames Police Court on Saturday."--_Provincial Paper._
Very rude of her.
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"An experimental air service for Army mails only was begun
a few days ago between Folkestone and Boulogne, with
intermediate points in Belgium, said Mr. Illingworth,
Postmaster-General."--_Daily Chronicle._
"We are a long way yet from the mastery of the air. Out of
fifteen days the Prime Minister's Paris postbag, which it had
been arranged should be sent 'via aloft,' had to go by the old
land and water route in fourteen days."--_Daily Mirror_.
Even that, we suppose, was quicker than to send it by the circuitous
air-route _viâ_ Belgium.
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"Section-Commander ----, who has had charge of the ----
Special Constabulary since their inception, has been
presented by the members with a Sheraton clock at a wind-up
dinner."--_Local Paper_.
It was, of course, the clock that had the wind up, not the
Section-Commander.
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"FOREIGN DIPLOMATS TAKE TO PRESIDENT. His Ability in Dealing
with Them Exceeds the Most Sanguinary Expectations."--_New
York Times_.
We shall have to revise our conception of Mr. WILSON as a man of
peace.
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[Illustration: _Rearguard Officer of Demobilization (collecting
stragglers on route-march)._ "WHAT THE DOOCE ARE YOU?" Straggler._
"I'M WOT T' MULES BROKE AWAY FROM."_]
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