Word: esq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the wake of the British Government's White Paper ("Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom"; TIME, Dec. 11), Gubbins published a White Paper of his own: "Statistics Relating to the War Effort of N. Gubbins, Esq., his Life Partner, Sally the Cat, and Six Hens at The Nest." Excerpts...
...addition to this N. Gubbins, Esq., spent four and a half years in the Home Guard, crawling about on his stomach in summer dust and winter snow, learning the parts of machine guns and learning how to fire rockets at enemy aircraft. . . . He thinks it is [now] safe to say that he still knows very little about either...
...noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and begged for a bone to make some soup. When he replied : 'I believe you had a bone a fortnight ago. There are other people who want bones besides you,' there were murmurs of approval from other women in the shop and the life partner of N. Gubbins, Esq., retired in confusion...
...Gubbins, Esq., has bought only one new suit of clothes since 1938, and may now be regarded as the worst-dressed man in Britain...
...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...