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Perhaps the most straight-forward of all the Advocate's offerings, "The Little Sins," may prove the most useful, especially to Freshmen. It is a rambling but well written and enjoyable description of the paths that may take the newcomer in Cambridge from Puritanism to Pub. Many of the suggestions are well worth following--by anyone...
Britons were reluctant to give up their little luxuries-weekends at Brighton, afternoons messing about in the rose garden, outings with the children to Kew Gardens or the Zoo, drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth...
With prices from a shilling (20?) to three-and-six (70?), the Philharmonic tour brought out working folk in swarms. In Manchester, the inevitable man-in-the-pub exclaimed: "It's made me find out I'm a bloody high-brow...
High Street in Oxford has seen some strange sights. One day last week it saw another. Attired in velvet smoking jacket, with an orchid, a lily and a white harebell in his buttonhole, David Burdett, Queen's College undergraduate, paraded up & down in front of the East Gate pub, opposite his college. He was attended by two sandwich men, whose signs read: "Rita is Unfair to David...
David stopped before the pub, posted his sandwich men. To an interested crowd he then read aloud an ode of his own contriving. The ode proclaimed his ardent love for Rita Harvey, barmaid...