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Bootmaker; sailmaker; winemaker: tentmaker; hay- maker; bookmaker.
18. You might to know that one.
square; ablong: pointed; upalde down. 1-Murgatroyd, the old sen-dog, In back from another trip and full (of - you keep a garden, a pot Information), as usual, he tells me plant, or wear a buttonhole, you will of these alaturen is 12 het Aus
One of these tralian ten shilling note:-... the time sen in kept by bells, walk in on this one,
plants isn't spelled quite curriel- jy:...
which are struck every:-
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the
Free Irish
State legislature in
of House
The Premier; the Senate; the
Lords: the Chamber of Deputies; Bamun de Valera.
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Reed instrument. win strument; string Instrument.
love tune; morthaf air, a fulse tike buggis
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loaves and thades. milk and barey, at
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10.
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are absolutely
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of veal
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SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1938
INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR
"MOST, stamp-dealers Dum-
bell," said Joshun Playfair, "are pretty honest chaps. They endeavour to give humanity a Aquare deal,"
"That's
dealer.
EPISODE
bell. adopting instinctively the semi-
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"Well, what do you suggest?" No- bul was interested,
"Write down a detailed descrip- tion of the missing stamp."
*
"Of course. But
"Oh, come," said Nobul. "Don't sir," right,
the said me back to my point. That stanip, opinion as to Valuc of the be absurd. I don't carry masses of Dumbell. "Philanthropists, don't was stolen, 1 belleve, by a stamp-
Dumbell, which is valued ni £1,000, stump?"
detalls in my hend. There are thou- "No," said Playfair. "Or, at any sands of stamps, you know Inspee- they call 'em ?"
A chop animed Nobul. (Af- rale, not yet. One thing lends
to tor." Playfair assumed an ale of muck- ter all, only a stump-stenfer could another, Mr. Nabul. It's only fair severity.
dispose of such a thing.) to tell you that your qualifications "If that's just a Dumbel hope to he said, "It will, I suppose, Would you enre to join with me in as an expert
have Istu,'
been
seriously ¤ call on him?” possimuster If, however as 118-
called in question." "I should be charmed,” said Dum- Nabul seemed taken aback. darned pect--it's sheer
ignorance.
What are you implying, sir? nerious vein in which the invitation Playfair smiled "All this is with-
out prejudice. "Philatelists," said Dumbell has had been couched.
You understand Nahuun Nabil ("Where was their slaps have to do what we then, we allowed," sald Playfair. Se of humour?" mused Dumbell to do. A suggestion has been made "Appeal
a swarthy, Inteligent-looking "Philatelists. And, talking of Phila- was
which it's up to you. Mr. Nabul, telists, I was about to proceed from Individua! of aideterminate uge and to fvpciuto—that you're not, prl With barely a glance at the Morn
nationality. He received his cullers rarily, a philatelist at all. the general to the particular.
Becent with an air which seemned, perhaps, it bluntly, that you use this role pui ing Gazette, he drew forward you read of this theft of an 18-cent trifle over-obsequions, but might, philatelist for the transaction of cription of the stamp.
writing pad and scribbled a full des-
I must reconsider your application
for leave.'
by
Antigua
*[ sh something in the this morning."
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Nabul mughed.
***
'I'm not no dense
the description of this one is in all the papers this morning.' Playfair picked up tho Morning Gazette and thrust it for- ward, "Look at that. Don't tell mo you haven't read it. Read it now, if you like, and then write down the description. If you're an expert philatelist, you enn at least do
that." "or course I enn," said Nabul.
So, with
side, the into terminated.
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more sald on either
"He thought you were trying to trap
him." said Dumbell, as the two presume that, as a police- men walked away. "He'd forgotten such things the stamp was described in the pa-
for all that have been quite normal. other business."
Scotland Yani
he said with afted eyebrows. "And what can I do for you, gentlemen?"
"We're here,"
re," answered Playfair, Ing. to make inquiries fulo a stamp elleer, you con do The 18-cent Antigua
with impunity But I can
is not to see what you're insinuat-
askure
pers did
"Good," said Playfule **t drew up That statement, you know." He took
some cuttings up
from his deak "Reads quite like an expert descrip-
"Ah, yes," sakd Mr Nabui. There you that you'll find no stomp-dealer looked when you took up the Morn- tion,
doesn't it? And so it is, by are only two speelmens extant One in London better qualified than my mu gud: Mr. Armured helped me. The is in the British Museum only thing that's wrong is a musprtul "And the other." Bald Playfair.
perforation, "was stolen on Monday from an ex- shortly 32
bilation in
in Bond Street.“
the
Ergord They've put 48 mustend of
"Careless of
of them said Dumbell. Mr Nabul's expression or lack of "Very Careless. sant Playfair it, now betrayed definitely his orien "But you remember what Bolet taf origin.
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"Prove n," answered
he'd
you see how relleved he
Gazette? Otherwise, known too much, you might have Playfair accused him of taking the stamp."
Playfair laughed, "And I do e- ruse him of taking the stamp. 1 baven't all the evidence I want yet, but--we've
made
# Blart:
we've
"Prove It? How? My whole 10- word proves it."
You
"The Yard," said Playfule, "would like something more specifle. he know perbaps-how the minds "An expert policemen work."
"What did you want of me?" Which brings aquired after a pattse
What
Language!
ERE is a book about bad
language.
We all use it.
man drops
a hammer on his Loes and he says. "blank. blank." An Interna- tional crisis arises and he says, "blab, blah."
There's no difference Excep! that blank, blank" shocks the neighbours, and "blab, blab" may Cause a war
The title which Stuart Chiese Then Fin for Llin
Turmy, very very instructive and very important book in The Tyranny of Words Methuen, 10. d.).
It is an elaborately worked out append for improving worda as menazas of communication. It is a text- book of a new science enlied Semi- Hea
Mr. Very briedy.
Chase's inct is thila: Words are not things. but inbels for things Dul minn has confused the We and peopled tite world with verbal Motisters which can no longer be readily referred back to things.
Llaten, for example to this speech by Dr. Goebbels
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*The Aryan Patherland, which han nurned the souls of heroes calla tipinia you for the supreme smerte, which you, in whom flows herole blood, will not fail, and which will erba forever down the corridors of history."
Mr. Chose substitutes "blub" for the semantic blanks in thla tirade, the words which to the alert stener d not come through became they cannot be referred back to reality. As follows:
The blnb blab, which has nursed the blaus of blabs, calls upon you for the blah blah which you, in whom flown blnb blood. will not fab, and which echo blab down the corridor of blab."
Nothing could be fairer-or more alarming. As Mr. Chure commenta, "Had language is now the mightiest weupon in the arsenal of despots and Jemagogues."
Of course, that Nuzi example is an extreme one But there is dungerous word-magic foot when we personity Powers and discuss International ren- onships In terms of "Germany maya," France insists," "Turkey threatens" and so on.
Mr. Chazo asked a hundred people. for a definition of Fascism. The on- swers revealed Afteen distinguishable conceptions. You can't fight enemy If you can't seʊ It clearly,
The author does not conflue himself to politica He applies semantics, entertainingly and instructively, to physics, mathematics, philosophy,
I
THRILLS
ARRIVED in St. Gatten from Nice on Tuesday, the fourteenth of August. I was arrested at 11.45 a.m. on Thursday, the six- teenth, by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat,
That in the way Eric Ambler opons Epitaph for a Spy (Hodder and Bloughton, 78. Od.), and I think it ir a
ery good start to a very good story. Aholiday-maker in the South of Franco takes Alm to be developed. On are pictures of fortifications. Under threat of deportation-for he is one of those growing thousands of men without a country-he roturns hotel to uncover the spy who took the pictures. One by one his fellow guents, Been through clouds of suspicion, come thrillingly to life.
ماد
That is one out-of-o-ordinary delec- tive story. Tho
is . C. Mason'a second Murder at Badar (Bell, s. 64.).
The motive is strange and the alibi odd. What is important to thint the author, choosing West Africa for the spot to put the cross where the body was found, shows that he, know it and writes about it nearly as well an he knows it.
AL practice. A lustration from Ballet Panorama," by Arnold L Muskell (Dalford, &s. Gl.).
education. theology, sex ministration of justice.
the ad-
Al the time he shows that words mant be led to the facts of experience LE T
communication is to sucered.
On the subject of reunoinir statistics. he says, for example. When a great btsker yn with satiafaelium duction is herenslig. Look at Purve. he might se well say haired mermaids are increaing. at the curve ***
Bridge Problem No. 65
W.
N. +52
❤ 4 3 2
• A ID 7 +AQ
S. A 3
J 10
K 8 3 2
E.
@ 8 7
Diamonds are trumps.
West leads 9 of Hearts. North and South to lose only one trick.
Entries to "Bridge Problem", Hongkong Telegraph not later than Wednesday morning.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM & Problem No. 64 apparently Look some of our regular solvers by surprise as solutions were less than usual this werk. As usual A.R.G. worked out the problem correctly, though he, as well as D.W., niade the alter- native play of East discarding a diamond at trick four instead of a club.
The problem, although not excessively difficult, was tricky.
Here is the correct play to Problem No. 64.
Trick. West. North,
Pro- the Blue- Loxk
2
8
3
6 2
Perhaps." he writes, "the greatest contribution of a selence of semantics totalci to turn fine mennings into no meanings, to hear nothing but blab hlab when the high abstractions ro rolling back and forth.
One'd
mind would shut out bad language as the turn of a radio dial shuts out a third-ruty crooner."
A first-rate idea
B. F.
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD
WE are sometimes told by cri-
Lies thnt
WC don't know what life ly. It may be true. And it may be true of our critics as well, These words of St. Paul will serve as a test. We certainly don't know what Your life is hid life is if we don't with Christ in understand their God.
meaning, COLOSSIANS ili,
3.
Life. s God willed it for all His children, abundant life, the gift of Christ, is a for bigger thing than the life of the body. It is the life of the soul, life whose eterunt quality we cannot taste or appreciate until we are born again. It is the life of the in- dwelling Saviour,
bestowed through Him who prayed to His Father "that they may be one in Our life, in Him, is safe in God, and nothing on earth or in hell
can harm it.
We live in time of fear.
Men
are beginning to say to the moun- tains, fall on us, and to the hills, eover us. But the Christian knows himself hidden in Christ till the storms of this eartily exis- tence are past. He Is our pence, and in that word is Immortality.
"Continual" Drinkers
Warned
COLUMBIA, S. C. Heavy drinking at widely separated Intervala is not an injurious to the system as the "continual" drinking of smaller amounts of alcoholic boverages, according to Dr. E. L. Horger, clinical director for the State Hospital here,
Fast. South.
5
15
10
East and West make the last threa tricks.
CHESS PROBLEMS
Nos. 19-20
Duck
White
·
made at start,
How had Nubul slipped up?
(Solution on Page Three)
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
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An Account in Cryptogram
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problem by a render. And the
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designed primarily for English readers, it abuuid prove interesting to others, as well. Clues are given, as well us the total. Can you in the missing
amounts in this account?
King George VI
What he wore Khid of pist
A boy's name
A leather worker
A grain of corn North & South Poles
£2-7-10%
Letter Changing
⇓
The recent change from YOU to SHE In 5 moves has been cut down to 4 by a reader-You, sou, soy, shy, she. And now Quincy, Moss, reader shares a series of 4 changes of which this is the first. She has Bume YARN to KNIT. The change can be mude in 11 moves.
What Are the Numbers?
Twice the difference of 2 numbers Is B, and 1-8 of their sum in 3%. What are the numbers?
Fun With Synonyms
And, to-day, 10 words and their synonyms to be paired off:
Jut
bang
2 understand
depart
3
trial
project
1RATO
constitute
15.
deperd
mapoolete
16
Jolly
obey
Jink
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19
discione
wind
koo
10 Plecen
White to play and mate in two.
Black
White
NO. 20
.3 Pieces
4 Places
White to play, and mate in three.
No. 17
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS Solutions to Problems 17-1
Q-11
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3. W.X
1, Ki-Koch
10-Q5
K blo
apart bentor
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
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