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Of a rebate debate.
That the creators of the cocktail have got the 'bird.
That we spell ft " Yah I Hare Kaiser !" nowadays.
Of a. taxi-driver who took up a are during the dinner hour.
Of many. who thought the Leyland advt. "just bully." . 0 That we could and should be a self-supporting Empire,. . . • That machinery without an oil film is no motion ' picture..
That we rejoiced officially on July nineteen nine teen nineteen. 0 That some think the designing of the 10-cwt. chassis is in S. (8)-F. E. hands.
That the pedigree of most by-roads seems to be by stonebreaker out o,f chaos.
Of many roads—formerly Al—which should now be -placed in a lower category.
That, whilst John Bull is busy producing alcohol, Uncle Sam is bent on traducing it.
That it is better to board an omnibus by numbers than to attack it inclose fonna4on.
• Inquiries as to why the blackleading of stones to represent coal is an uncontrolled industry..
That the big Government auctions are not stopping orders being placed for next Whitsuntide delivery. That too much standardization means stultification., Of a very long night and day run by a Leyland fire...
engine. 0 Of a trunk call that took less than half an hour to get through.
• That the_ Cippenham hustle is the sort of work Wallace wallows in That the new L.G.O.C. bus reminds us of the Great Eastern Arrol-Johnstons.
—but not of those other Stratford Great Easterns.
Of bets as to whether Continentals, Polacks or Teter Unions will get back.
That though we arranged a. Peace week it does not follow we have arrangedt, weak peace.
Of giraffe skin, I in. thick, used for flexible-coupling emergency replacements, in the East African cam paign. 0 That "the old order changeth, yielding place to new" is a, better trade motto than "to him that hath to him shall be given."
That the Germans are being excluded from the Chess Federation because they could not play above board, let alone on the square.
That the only chance industrial Britain has left is to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before—to do double the work in less time.
That, owing to the protracted celebrations at Armistice time, Peace Day was fixed on a Saturday, as nothing of a festive nature could live through a British Sunday.