It is fairly evident that the Americans fully realised the physical impossibility of having American bacon and Prohibition in their own country at the same time.
Western Texas, says a cable message, is being eaten bare by a plague of grasshoppers. Before Prohibition set in a little thing like that would never have been noticed in Texas.
Some of the new rich, says a gossip, only wear a suit once. There are others like that, only it is a much longer once.
"A healthy boy's skin should be well tanned after a holiday," says a health-culture writer. Surely not, unless he has done something to deserve it.
"But why a Ministry of Mines?" asks a contemporary. The object, of course, is to put the deep-level pocket-searching operations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a national basis.