TRUE POLITENESS.
Party in Check Cap. “Will You Have My Place, Sir?”
“Three swift fierce rounds between Beckett and Wells and the 18,000 spectators at Olympia last night witnessed the close of yet another great ring drama.”—Daily Chronicle.
“Beckett ... bowed more by instinct than of set purpose to the shouting, over-wrought people who from the floor of Olympia shot up to the ceiling.”—Daily Telegraph.
We had no idea until we read these paragraphs that the spectators took such an active part in the proceedings.
House-hunter (after another fruitless day). “What about taking this? We could at least hang our pictures.”