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...Expenditures: ... Of these, income tax was by far the greatest, though as the price of alcohol increased, the expenditure on this pardonable indulgence in wartime was in clanger of reaching the income-tax level. . . . It was observed that the consumption of alcohol by N. Gubbins, Esq., increased during air raids. . . . It was also noticed that the rate of consumption was highest when the alert was sounding and lowest when the all-clear was heard...
Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...
...went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones (a play...
Customs are always interesting if they are neither absurd or harmful. No one has ever been known who was inspired into daily activity by the clanger of the seven o'clock bell. When the five minutes duration of sounding is multiplied by three hundred, this number of students living in the yard, it will be seen that sixty hours of sleep are lost per day by these unfortunate students...