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...bird that H. M. bought in Port Said when he was in the navy. In her youth Charlotte had a loud and penetrating voice, knew a variety of nautical terms and a smattering of French, and used to frighten visitors to Buckingham Palace by suddenly screaming "WELL WHAT ABAHT IT?" Lately she has grown morose, likes to sit on the King's shoulder at breakfast time cracking sunflower seeds...
...five quid to a "bawber that David Kirkwood didn't shout, "Wot abaht the Red letter?" (wte your issue of Mar 16, Page 8), when he interrupted the monocled son of Brummagem Joe in Parliament. What he probably said was: "What about...
...desirable, in order to prevent Europe from splitting into two armed camps, that Germany should become a party to the proposed treaty of security (see INTERNATIONAL). But when he referred to a secret document that he had received from Germany, the irrepressible Clydesider, "Dave" Kirkwood,* shouted: "Wot abaht the Red letter?"-a reference to the Zinoviev letter which aided the Conservatives in the last election (TIME...