"Nothing useful is ever done in the House of Commons," says a Labour speaker. He forgets that the cleaners are at work in the building just now.
We are informed that at the Bricklaying contest at the Olympic Games a British bricklayer lost easily.
"A dress designer," says a Camomile Street dressmaker in The Evening News, "must be born." We always think this is an advantage.
A gossip-writer points out that Mr. Winston Churchill's earliest ambition was to be an actor. Our contemporary is wise not to disclose the name of the man who talked him out of it.
"Whatever price is fixed it is impossible to get stone in any quantity," says a building trade journal. They have evidently not heard of our coal-dealer.