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...right spirit, announcing: "I wouldn't do a strip dance in a night club. ... I wouldn't do it at a stag affair either. This is different. The people are really good folks. They don't get to see much of this sort of thing and they get a thrill...
Feeble and foolish though all this was, it was enough to thrill all China with the rumor that the Great Wu had stirred himself, would presently arise to sweep the Japanese out of North China. Significantly Japanese Army officers, who normally love nothing better than a good provoking "incident," disclaimed all interest in the episode, described it as a "small mutiny" in the Chinese armies...
Meanwhile George, Duke of Kent-"P. G." to his intimates-was up and about London, reported by the Daily Express to have had "the thrill of a lifetime." This occurred when H. R. H. descended into an underground station accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman...
...case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
This morning, its pages charged with pictures and stories of angelic cleanness, "Lampy" brought out a new issue. But we, its unhappy readers, miss the zest and blood-tingling thrill of phrases saturated with double meanings. Gone are the days when men were men and jokes were jokes. The inexorable censor has done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with...