Mr. McKenna was not at all in a conciliatory mood, and startled some of his opponents by reminding them that under the Defence of the Realm Act the Government could take any kind of property at prices far below the market value. When other men had given up their lives for their country why all this boggling over shares?—an argument that the House as usual found unanswerable.
"At Colmar a merchant has been sentenced to a fine of £5 by a German court-martial for repeating in a public restaurant the well-known joke about ordering a sandwich at a Prussian railway buffet, and being served with a neat ticket between two bread tickets."
The Times.
Anyhow he deserved his punishment for spoiling the only Teuton joke.
"The bride's mother was costumed in black stain."—Shepton Mallet Journal.
Under the stress of War-economy we are evidently getting back to the days of woad.
