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...Vagabond has never followed after the things of the body. He has confined himself chiefly to the less corporeal activities of the mind and intellect. Of late days, however, what with the warm weather and the fag end of the year, he has found the intellect altogether wanting. He decided that it was high time he learned something about the physical set up of mankind...
Although "fagging" has been abolished at some institutions, many a middle and upper-class Englishman likes to believe that the rigors of public school life fit youngsters to become Backbone-of-the-Empire. Evidence of the childish cruelty which Fag Fairhurst was made to suffer was given at the coroner's inquest...
Asked by the coroner to describe the routine to escape which Fag Fairhurst had killed himself, one witness explained: "Each new boy is expected to do 20 'fags' or acts of service, a week. Each new boy is asked to do these 'fags' for a prefect who in some cases is in a lower form. The 'fags' are expected to run at the call of a prefect, and the first arrival receives a mark and the others receive no marks. Each boy runs 50 times and is expected to make 20 marks a week...
...last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf and matches will be imposed. By a 33 1/3% duty on imported tires, by shortening excise credits allowed to brewers, by taking money from road fund reserves and transferring it to national reserves, the chancellor figures he can not only meet...
...dirt or blood? Both are good for the circulation ! . . . Oh, for the peanut venders . . . that used to enliven our funeral mobs. Anything to jazz up those curiously apathetic groups that huddled on the Westchester Court House steps. . . . Like subway crowds they waited, patient and dull. . . ." World subtitles: "One-Ounce Fag Lifts Counsel's Eyebrow," "Testimony is as Full of Beds as a Barracks...