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From the pens of two English humor lie come these burlesque and some. times not unamusing remarks on business and the law. Mark Spade's little book discusses efficiently, production, distribution and allied topics under the head of running a bassoon factory in separate chapters, each (in the best and most ancient Punch tradition) with a mangled quotation from Shakspere as its introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest...
...same gentle satire is seen in Spade's handbook on business. Here he is assisted by diagrams, parodies of those we commonly meet in serious treaties on economics, which are extremely ludicrous. But the book does not answer
Only occasion on which it [TIME] doesn't call a spade a spade is when it lets readers see from photographs and calling would be superfluous-as it reveals those spade-faced, hedge-headed, hookwormed whites of South Carolina to whom the likes o' Jimmy Byrnes has to appeal in order to get reelected...
...Apologies, No Regrets. Every member of the House of Commons knew that the United Kingdom was about to climb down before the Italian Kingdom when handsome young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden rose to speak. In the gallery sat Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, whose spade beard turned from black to grey during the weeks and months of British-Italian threats and bickering over Ethiopia. Suavely Captain Eden, with the complete aplomb which he gained at Eton, Oxford and in the trenches, told the House that the pro-Ethiopian, pro-League and anti-Italian policy upon which his whole career...
...Rabelais is famous for his "Pantagruel" (three books) and his "Gargantua" He was a humanist and called a spade a spade; his motto was: 'Fais ce que voudras' or 'Do what damn please'--a fine dope to follow if you have a barrel of money, but for a poor guy it means prison inside of a week. Rabelais was an all 'round bad guy, didn't believe in God, and led a pretty fast life. His works show it, and they'd never do for a Girls' School, but would make a big hit with some college men I know...