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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 159.
September 15th, 1920.
CHARIVARIA.
Prohibition meetings in Scotland, says an official, have been attended
by fifty thousand people. We should not have thought there were so
many aliens in Scotland.
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At an Oldbury wedding the other day a brick was thrown at the
bridegroom. There is no excuse for this sort of thing with confetti so
cheap.
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One of the Pacific Islands, we read, is so small that the House of
Commons could not be planted on it. A great pity.
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"Do hotel chefs use cookery-books?" asks a home journal. Our own
opinion is that quite a large proportion of them cook by ear.
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Fourteen thousand artificial teeth recently stolen from premises in
East London have not been recovered. While not attempting to indicate
the guilty party, we cannot refrain from pointing out that several
Labour leaders have recently been showing a good many more teeth than
they were thought entitled to possess.
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At the Trades Union Congress a protest was made against the
Unemployment Insurance Act.
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