After addressing a meeting for two hours, says a contemporary, Trotsky fainted. A more humane man would have fainted first.
We feel very jealous of the suburban gentleman who wrote last week asking what an O.B.E. was, and whether, if it was a bird, it should be fed on hemp-seed or ants' eggs.
With reference to the wooden house which fell down last week, the builder is of the opinion that a sparrow must have accidentally stepped on it.
Lord Birkenhead describes the Coalition as an "invertebrate and undefined body." Meaning that they have rather more wishbone than backbone.
An Indian native was recently sentenced to write a poem. In other countries of course you commit a poem first and are sentenced afterwards.