A British Crossword Puzzle
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1 Dress (6).
1
ACROSS
7 Boy's name ($).
9 Principal (5).
10 Strip of leather (5).
11 Afresh (4).
16 Ruining (10).
15 Microbe (4).
10
Ansert (4).
10 Effect on the mind (10).
22 Sea movement (4).
24 Renovate (3)..
25 Accumulate (5),
20 Wine (4).
17 Mess (0).
DOWN
2 Works hard (5),
3 Deduce (5),
4 Compositions (0).
5 Throws into confusion (8),
Dry by rubbing (4).
6 Scope (5).
12 Female (35).
ift Reinforcement (5),
14 Tortures (8).
17 Duck
(5).
Garden tool (0),
20 Sparse (5).
21 Foolish (5).
23 Metal (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Across: 1 Arrest, A
Pelor.
7 Intact, 8 Agent, 10 Amid, 12 Adulute, 15 Nitre, 16 Aptx, 17 19 Spate, 20 Earshot, 21 Erse, 23 Signs, 24 Return, 5 Press, 20 Reveal. Down: Amicable, 2 Retainer, 3 Snek, 5 Regulate, 0 Ornate, & Adept, 11 Dissents, 12 Arson,
14 Extena), 18 E-ner, 22 Merce.
YOU AWOKE TO FIND A TALL
WOMAN WHOSE FACE YOU
COULD NOT SEE SHE
SEEMED ABOUT TO DRAW THE CLOTHES
OFF YOU
THIS
13 Aper-
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958,
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT.....
The teen-age gambler reformed
HARLES
James
Fox,
statesman, was a dis solute youth who became one of the moat charming and popular men of his time.
His father. Henry Fox, Baro Holiant, wanted to make a man of his third son, beb went a strange way about it.
was one
PARADE
SLAVONIC in bustling Cape
Harbour RHAPSODY town
officinis, are
dazzled.
COLUMN
OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
annually-visiting destroy their collection of idols. 11 brides Ivan than 15 years of the works".
For Успо Russian whalenten have brought their own portable: Iron Curtain them to Table Bay, Burly with gangway guards rado Ilfo tough for dock-covering newspaper- men and camtramen,
Into the Bay steamed 10 ships with hammer
sckie
and
ensigna fluttering astern, scuttle full of whale oil and cordial The plaque (arrowed) shows For dazed waterfront
where Fox Lived. Muški men it was
He entered Parliament, and caviar,
backs and
Erstwhile poker-faced ex purr.
+
•
•
cat with a Scottish
loot
D
•
zent
on
considera-
It can mighty
memory of Gandhi and the CATCH 'EM Malta's Puble at least, until recently?-?
YOUNG
Registrar coolly person of Nehru,
Bo many of the party's stal- He is alleged to have per-
announced last warts have been carrying an sunded a Catholic family to week in his report for 1982 that with other people's wives that now agrees to take “good.
into Among them were statuettes ago went to the ultar last year.
dion when passing sentence, of Gandhi and Nehru.
BAD
Giusseppe Scromin Courageous trouble-stirring, for was well on the example, or hard work with a MEMORY WAK SHORT The ̃ ̃Czech govern-
way
to an assured bundle of pamphlets, will savo a CUT ment haa ordered place in the bandi; world. culprit from the gallows.
tobacco companies, to Each morning at down, ho bring out "hall-alze" cigarettes, sauntered out into the streets of
,ba Red ometals think shorter fage Milan, carefully selected a shop, BEAUTIFUL will "cut down smoking inter- pitched vals in factories."
brick through the AND
rough window, and filled his bag with UNWANTED looking like news
Ava Gardner. Ask Lorette Bauarschi.. and
vodka
dockers are Then, one day, "he
Sho doubled for the actress Slav faces. CAT'S Durban
LIFE hunting for a big black accomplies to tell a pertable
A four-month movio. radio in a second hand shop during leader, Captain
one of the shops he had ralded making stint at Mogambo, in Kenya. Then she went to The game was up. 'Said 23- Nairobi for a holiday. ho could at that
newspaperman who resigned 80
asked
At the Bow Stanley Hotel, a permission to ride with into a packing case near Glas- oppose the Royal Marriage Act.
arrested: "I cannot remember clerk mistook her for Ava and North found him to be such him to a city bank to pick up row, Scotland, and shipped to year-old Scremin when he was
South Africa with an auto- ALL the shops I have ruided." ront her to a suite booked for excellent debater that he shore-going money for the ships
Miss Gardner moblic. After four weeks with-
And husband the 713 men and 31 won
women. urged him to return
If the Kremlin's big out food and drink, he emerged MORAL Burma's Communist Frank Sinatra. Government as a Lord of the
A strlet echoed as far as thin and tired, but still chipper.
party has
Sinatra arrived not long after. somersault had Treasury.
moral code, To make up for his ordeal, he FIBRE
and according to Loretto. ---- In Antarctie whaling grounds, he
was sent to Durban for a sca-
aut. Lorette, ha 'Adultery, for instance, merila threw her grinned: "We heard about a new
beforo holiday irit of understanding. But we ide
being the death penalty-or, so it was, moved on to Northern Rhodesia, spirit of
hind orders about it. I shipped home. There, he ran haven't don't know about Auch things."
Of an unidentified submarine
worries CHURCHIE has recently which Natui coast-dwellers, Selynik FOR SHORT roared with laughter: "No,
makes names. submarines have we whales, plenty of
He held this office tion Admiralty.
occaalan for about two years, and then Solynik, chubbily beamed assent Ho was accidentally nailed
one
He encouraged young Charles to indulge in the vices of this peniors. Tas the ki oecame
reckless heavy drinker and a
his on reaching his majority, Lord in a sea of gambler, bus Holland and friends always came to the rescue. North made him a Lord of the and bought the creditars off.
But there
the paternal
purec when strings
loosened not were promptly. Down upon Charles James came the harples, and went his furniture to be Dway sold to pay the debts.
At the age of 20 he turned the worst of his away from
and began pursuits
bout politics,
LCC
CHARLES JAMES FOX (1749-1806: statesman Lived Here
to think
What the plaque`saya,,
84
YOU COULD NOT SPEAK- THEN SHE STEPPED
MEANS:
DREAM This common type of dream dales
from. childhood when your mother came to luck you in.
14 โพ dream that comes to those who have remained over-devoted to their mothers: It comes whenever
they feel unloved and neglected by others and in need of feminine Nympathy and maternal affection It is as if
BACK AND YOUR DREAM ENDED
crave.
arc
your subconscious wish were gratified and you were getting the affectionate attention, you
You should ask yourself whether you mare inclined passively to expect affection than motively to give it; in which case you may be feeding the vicious circle of expecting more, giving less, and therefore getting less,
In a mature relationship, one wishes to give a little more than one gels.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
[QUITY
"MUTINY,
EH 7-*
A SHIPWRECK ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE
ON THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
'WHY DON'T YOU
HOLD OUT
YOUR HAND ?
·AFTER ALL IT ISN'T A
YACHT
ك
--
nh
Fox's independence, even office,
annoyed George III. peremptory order went out from the Court to sack Fox.
Fox was 1341- In opposition
He attacked the surpassed, ministerial policy, which led to of the American the secession colonies, and refused to take office again for nearly 10 years, Foreign In 1782 he became Secretary
Rockingham, under
Fox but when the latter dled, rejected the advances D[ Shelburne,
ond
Fox And North Fox and North joined forces, the two statesmen held office under the Duke of Port- Innd. Again the King intervened and Fox was dismissed, and his India Bil thrown out.
Asked i
no
away.
we seen--only In
whales."
But back at the harbeur parents
Names mako news and
new... it retins,
Asinn
the Capetown,
of two year old Mossadcoh Goollum re-regis-
wharf workers had been do- prived of their favourite aunus tered the youngster as Charles
Churchill Goollam, sport trying to make the Russians smile.
•
ROYAL HOLIDAY, THIELS BETTER REPUBLICAN STYLE
8
the week before.
THE
TRAMP FROM ETON
with his eye on £100,000
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON CEORGE ORWELL. By Tom down-and-out; one who lived:
Hopkinson, Longmans, Green. 2. 40 pages.
THAT'S Laboriously, the New Zealand Government collected copies of orphan the news reports and pletures of girls the Everest expedition
and pasted them in a handsomely- of Egypt's strong man, General bound book for presentation to
in doss-houses, first in Paris:and
Naguib,
then in London, by dish-wash-. are vacationing "Tiger" Tensing. In the row between the King Farouk's magnificent Montazah
ing, begging, tutoring, etc. Ha Then they hud second and the Prince of Wales, Fox Palace near Alexandria, over thoughts.
They
remembered VEN before he went to spent his last 80 centimes, on milk; a bug fell in the milk: ag he supported the Prince, and
looking the Mediterranean. that the Tiger en neither read
Eton, pasty-faced, flat- an Old
Old Etonian, Blair poured was excluded from the Coalition
Commented one: "We're hav- nor write. So they pasted in
chested, awkward little the milk sadly away. of 1804. Two
later years
ing a royal holiday
thanks to some pictures of the New Zeu Eric Blair (born 1903, Ben- Grenville had to accept him as the republic."
What was
bla motivo in de land alps. Foreign Secretory.
gal) decided that money was liberately accking the Lower
Depths?.. MM-MM! It was
de- what counted, his
Tom Hopkinson, in blokie after he had been in opposition LOUD Passionist Futhers
Hentely nurtured His father, a minor official in town and again in the Cortich{1 for more than 23 years. He PROTEST
in Rome stepped palate that did for forly-year- the Bengal Opium, Department, magazine, think 'the' he whi was buried Ja Westminster out from behind a lorry, pulled a old burglar Luger Deswarmes. could not afford to pay full fees, working off s guilt
French Foreign Legion pistol, On his way out of a Brussels for his son at an English Prid talked en oftest of going to the
Fox died in office in 1808
Abbey.
Shortly before his death he brought in a measure to abolish the slave trade. He and Burke etween then may be said to have bcen
Counderi of the Briush Liberalism. Burke had created a new Whig Party, and Fux joined him.
A sacristan to the
shot his father-superior
·
dead butcher-shop four months
tha
nome,
:
74
complex.
You have age paratory school, So Little Blaár himself Bays: and wounded his vice-rector. with the contents of the cash was singled out from his school dogs and, well, here are the His explanation: "I was being box, a suit and an evercoat, he fellows by being given no iced dogs, and you have reached them, underpaid."
spied a dish of succulent pate cake at tea-time on his birthdays and you can stand it. The sacrlatan, 50-year-old de fole. The temptation was
Under he decided to In consequence,
George Domenico Frantini, An ex- too great. He stopped just loug make £100,000; as a first step Onwell, he wade a grim record of Legionnaire, served five years in enough to bite out
man-size won
ton, the world of the under-dog. D scholarship for Eton. portion. French gool for his part in
There he did little work, leave "Down and Out In Paris and years after bomb plot before the Fathers Last week the publle pro- ing school with impaired health, London." Twenty took him in.
secutor proudly, produced the and heightened pwareness of publication; the book selts more remains of the pate-kept fresh money values, to become a copies every year than the year
before. CRIME IN Sidelight on modern in "a police refrigerator--and policeman in Burina.
It has the objective 'paszina India:
After five years he went home which makes Orwell an orstand- A Molfese priest, marks in it fitted the gaps in with a marked lack of enthusiasm
ing reporter. Fax is commemorated by aworking as a Catholic missionary Desarmes' top front locih,
for imperialism. plaque at 46, Clarges Street, in India, ・ 11 stand trial shortly. For Luger: Five years for Blair's next move, was start- 1-Iccadilly,
His crim disrespect to the commilting five robberies. 'ling. He became a tramp,
Together they fought the case for the American colonies; justice. to India, Justice to Ireland, and for the establish- ment of effective Parliamentary Government.
HE CAN'T
HE
NEEDS THREE HANDS WINDEZ
RIGHT NOW.
NO-BUT
IT'LL BE A SUBMARINE
IN ANOTHER
MINUTE
"LET'S PLAY SEE-SAW,
POP
INDIA
1
demonstrated that the
teeth
BY HARRY
WEINERT
All At Sea
"YOU NAMED IT
AFTER¬ME—
HOW ROMANTIC ?“
DROP ANCHOR, SINBAD
DINNER IS. READY.
THIS CANOE CHANGES ITS
NAME
MORE OFTEN
THAN A
CHAMELEON
CHANGES ITS COLOR
LIZ
TAKING IT. OFF —.
·AND PUTTING IT ON —
COME, JEN BY GENERAL FEATURES,
COLF ALWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED
MAIDEN VOYAGE HIGH AND DRY
POP'S SEA YARNS GOT THEM
INTO THE TUB.
ANOTHER HARDY SEAFARER TRIUMPHS OVER THE ELEMENTS.
He had an inflamed social con- sefence and a touch of inverted 3 snobbery: "If there is one man to whom I feel myself Ingerfor, it ja a 'cost miner."
At this point in Orwell's carter a superficial observer enight hayo predicted for, him the famil evolution of a middle-clòss, Left (t intellectual, reaching apothcoels on the Soolelit back-benches or in, the Communter Party. But that
would have overlooked two- or"! Orwell's qualities: his exacting- honesty of mind; the passionate Individualism which shared with Socialism an unczey con- dominium over his spirit, dje
Ho did not merely visit: Spain during the Civil War; he was badly wounded while Durving in an Anarchist battalion
Lungs riddled with tuberculo ris kept him out of the bigge war; he became an over-worked broadcaster and on enthusiastic Procant in the Home Guard. sergeant
The rank was nearly denied him when it was found that he had served with the Republicans in Spain. In the nick of time, his. status as an Old Etonian was rovcaled.
Meanwhile, George Orwell was hot making much headway with Hillo Eric Blair's main ob- jective. In ton years of writ ing his earnings had avertiged less than £3 a week.
Now .of
War,
during the later months he wrote “Animal Farm," an exuberant tablo in direct descent from Guillver's Travels. satirizing Stalinist Communism. It shocked - Left Wingers as a gratuitous publie indecency:
Three-quarters of a million › Coples of English editions hava-* beeri sold. The neurotically vicious anti-Soviet tract" was translated into many languages and mado into the first full- length British cartoon film.
Orwell, famous, rotired to the Scottish island of Jura-lo put down on paper ascatifying impse of a totalitarian future 1984. The comic tantary Animal Farm had given, place tü nocuring vision.
anti-com- munist novel was banned in Elre; sold 300,000 bp in the English Language; was called in America "timely as the label or a bottle of polson." gloomy boon
"It wouldn't have be
wald
This
'hadn't.
Impressive
enough to die
been
Orwell, I
a few months
later, In University
Hospital, Aged 147,
He left £9,908, and a request that no blography el him should” be written Brio Blair's first hundred thousand was atus fur over: thest horizon, but George Orwell had found a more urgent
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