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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
6
A string of quoted lines from parliamentary debates reflects the era's rhetoric on free speech and constraint. The excerpts include references to taste, disagreement, and dramatic imagery such as swords and guns, illustrating parliamentary style and metaphor.
A large man climbs toward a railway platform as a bus weighs him down and makes him pant. A persistent boy asks to help with the bag. The man refuses twice and grows angry, snapping at the boy who then jokingly asks to hold his breath.
An attractive girl and a plain spinster wait for a bus. The girl offers a cigarette and debates smoking in public, sparking a mini quarrel about social norms and public decency in a street scene.
The mother asks Bobby about his new teacher. Bobby says the teacher is not bad but unreliable. He recalls the teacher insisting two plus two equals four and then claiming three plus one makes four.
Sir Algernon West recalls in his memoirs a whimsical Oxford contemporary named Bent who later served as Woolwich's vicar. On leaving university Bent was a poorly paid curate when a passerby asked if he was the incumbent. He replied I am Bent without the income.
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