EGRAPH. WEEK-END SECTION
Are You Sure?
Sure? The "Telegraph”
3.
recently at the:-
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Hitler addressed the Reichstag
Reichstag
Olympic Zoological
Buildings
Stadium
Gardens
Krull Opera
Imperial
Hotel
Hause
Palace Katierhof 2. Fil these people to the quota- tions below: Nelson, Goering, Pal- mersion, Jullus Caesar. Frederick the Great, Gladstone:--
(a) "Guns or butter"
end will (b) Opinious in the
prove stronger than bayonets
(e) Thank God I have done mu
duty
(d) Peace, retrenchment and re-
fornl
(e) I came, I saw, I conquered (1) Perfidious Albion
3. Which of these are Stales of the U.S.A.:
Omaha
Nantucket
Missouri
Columbia Miastasippl Michigan
4. Which of these have (a) one. (b) two, (e) three parts:-
Numbers
Chronicica
Judger
Epistle General
of St. John Corinthians Romans
5. Select the cullings totally ex-. empt from (a) national and (b) Jury service in this flat.
Blackmitia
Barristers Peers
Doctors
Journalists
Architects
0. Colorado beetles attack:- Fruit trees
Sheep
Woodwork
-Vine's
Colton
Polatoca
7. Mikado means:-
Son of heaven
Sun of heaven
Conquering lon
August gute Eniperor
Wise counsellor
8. (a) Inseet, (b) bird, (e) fabul-
ous beast or (d) soup, which Ist
Cockatrice
Cockroach
Cockclinjer
-
16. The tale of the siege of Troy Is told by:
Herodotus Laty Homer
Vergil Thucydides Xenophon
17. To what would you be par- ticularly averse if you suffered from: (a) Claustro- (c) Anglophobla
phobla (d) Hydro-
phobla (b) Agord
phobia (e) Xenophobia
18. How many kings of England have been called;-
Brains Test
Latvia Lithuania Bulgaria
Poland
Extonta
Finland
35. The story of David and Go- Hath occurs in the Book of:-
1. Samuc!
Judges
ii. Samuel
36. Which of Ministers:
Josephi
Chamberlain
Viscount
Goderich
Spencer
Perceval
1. Kings
1. Chronicler
these were Frime
Sir William
Harcourt
Lord Aberdeen
Str Henry
Campbell-
Bannerman
37. The Lord High Executioner in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado" is
(a) William
(d) Jolin
(b) Richard
(e) James
(c) Henry
(1) Charles
15. The British
Legion was found-called:
cd in: ---
Yum-Yum
1054
1014
Nanki-Poo
1002
1918
1815
1021
3. In what elly would you find:--
(d) Rathmines
shance (e) Fulham
(u) Wythen-
(b) Gorbals
Tortell
(c) Edgbaston
21. President of Republican
Pish-Tush
38.
Ko-Ko
Pittt-Sing Pooh-Bah
A Ilon In heraldry is anid to
be "proper" when it is-
On its hind legs On all fours
Full face
Crowned
Its natural
colour
Painted red
30. Which of these occur in (a)
Manhattan
Vermouth
Spain, President of Catalonia, Prest-Martini cocktail, (b) dent of the Basque provinces, Re- cocktall pubilenn Prime Minister, Republican Foreign Minister, which was:-
(u) Azania
(b) Aguirre
(e) Companys
(d) Negrin
(e) Del Vayo
One of these is n boat:--
Imam
22.
Ban Helman
Maidan Ramazan
Sumpan
Games have 23. The Olympic never been held in London. Is that true?
24: Pound notes bear, the signn-
ture:-
Bradbury
Rickard
Kindersley
-Stamp
C. J. Hambro
K. O. Pepplatt
Montapu
25. in which State
Cocky-lerky Cockatoo
is:-
(a) Chicago
did
these
(b) New York
(e) Bostost
(d) San
Fran-
In which century
(#). Chaucer
(b) Milton
(c) Dante
10. The greatest
tish Empire is In:-
Asia
Africa
North Amertea
(t) Longfellow
(e) Voltaire
(1) Burns
area of the Bri-
South America Oceania
11. May in marry his:-
(0)
(b)
(c)
Deceased wife's sister
Deceased brother's welde Deceased wife's brother's
daughter
12. One of these is a palindrome: —
Wembley Stad
Stadium
A parchment tulee written on
A night errant
The sentence "Able was 1
Baw Elba"
A musical top
26. 18:-
Norman
of the US.A.
cisco
(e) Phila-
delpicia altimore
(4) A mile longer than a kilometre (b) A pard longer than a metre 27. One of these is First Lord of the Treasury-
Sir John Simon Neville
Chamberlaine
Earl De La Warr
Lard Stanhope Lord Derby
28. In which country is, or was, Parlament called the---
(a) Sobranje
(b) Seym
(e) Storting
(d) Cortes
(e) Duma
(1) Reichsratk
20. Gazebos are:-
Zebra-like
animals
Field glasses Round dancer 34. Is there an
CTC I
for:
#
London's Airport
13, "John Brown's body les
mould'ring in the grave" since:----
1776
1812
1014
14. Which of these
rcunded the Cape: (b) rounded
Horn: (c) circumnavigated
(a) Jurymen
A fenced camp Rock
formations
Summer houses
upper age limit
(b) J.P.8
33. The hound that guarded the infernal regions in classte legend was called:
1859
7880
1002
Cato
Аты
(a)
the
Plato Pluto
the
32.
world:
Bartholomew
Die
Magellan.
Drake
Jacob le. Muire.
Vasco da Gama Juan del Cano
15. Lepidoptera: are:-
Powerful spectacles
Animals of the leopard species
Spats on the sun
Fossil trees
Butterfiles and moths
Pegasus
Cerberus
Medusa
Which of these are extinct Ichinettmann
Ichthyosaurus
guana Iguanodon
33. Which of these operas form Niebe- of the "Ring of the
part lungs"
"Siegfried"
"Lohengrin"
"Parsifal"
"The Valkyrie”
"Tannhauser" "Twilight of
the Gods"
31. Do all these countries have TL
sea coast:-
Whisky Gin
A Lay Sermon
"FOLLOW ME," said Jesus to
Peter and Andrew, "and I will make you fishers of men." Both were already disciples, but now He was commissioning them, giving them special work to do.
That is what makes the words of His charge so important. They were to become "shers of men." Why? Look at the last words of was be- the previous verse, cause they were fishers. Not all the apostles were Flahers of men Matthew, iv, 19 commissioned
the same words. Matthew the taxgatherer, for in- slanec, was eat told he was to bel in fisher of men. His, it may be. was to see that men, as they ren-
Caesar the dered to
things that were Caesar's, should also render to God the things that were God's.
in
In one serse every Christion is Bit called to be a fisher of men,
he must re-i to fish successfully member that Christ requires nis special abilities. Jesus, this very infaute, may be saying to a bar-1 rister: "Follow Me; I want you to plend My cause," ur to a travel- ler: "Follow Me; I need you to with show My sumples." He, Hls knowledge of all men, knows what each enn do best.
Film Agent Sues Noni, The Clown
Noni, the famous clown, was re- cently sued for damages in the High Court.
Martin His
M&M B&M
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1939.
PUZZLE CORNER
Cryptogram
Here's a rule for success-and gasoline. At this rate, how much will he use on a trip of not difficult to solve:
202.5 miles?
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A Charade
TH
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The Sights
Seeing At The Dog
Dog Show
OGGIE ladies are tweedy doggie ladles will be practically
DOGGIE everything
Fun With Synonyms Ten more words to be paired off with their correct synonyms:
doclie
DIFFY garvenjani
hesty
རྐུ
ehoorst
A 13-letter word is called for by "TOTAL."
Candid
15
Specdy
ů
cloudy
bolar
A FIRST was he, and so was
she,
7
Sentidad
0118
A
ponderous BUMBI
roveh valient
Alike in class, it may be
stated:
What more was needed to
SECOND the twain, So obviously,
mated?
And
neatly
So a TOTAL I may safely
make
That youth and love a way
will find,
Though paths have thorns
and storms may roar,
To circumvent the Fates un-
kind.
Letter Changing Mr. was The plaintiff Wronker, m export agent.
Following the usual rules, claim arose out of police court pro- ceedings in which he was alleged to change FOWL. to DUCK in 6 have wrongfully obtained £100 from Non-The-charge was afterwards moves,
Mr. Wronker Then withdrawn. claimed domages for alleged mallei- uus prosecution.
Noni, whose real nume is Alfred the allega- Charles Sigrist, denied tions.
How Much?
A motorist said that he could drive 81 miles on 4 gallons of
His child's future nearly ruined
NIGHT STARVATION
OH, MR. JACKSON, I WANT YOU TO MEET MR. GRANGER, HE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOU
IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
(THINKS)
JACKSON
ETHERE IS
A NEW MAN! THAT MEANS COULDN'T AFFORD THEY ARE GOING TO SACK SOMEBODY AND IT'S BOUND TO LOSE HIS JOB TO BE ME. MY WORK HASN'T HE WANTED TO BEEN TOO GOOD LATELY.
GIVE HIS BOY
A GOOD EDUCATION. IF ONLY HE DIDNT "ALWAYS FEEL
TIRED IN
DESPAIR HE
NOTHING EXACTLY I KNOW, MR.
DOCTOR BUT YOU BACK AT YOUR WRONG WITH ME JACKSON IT HOLDS ALWAYS FEEL SO WORK WE CALL THIS I WAKE UP You SEE.YOU ARE TIRED EVEN WHEN HIGHT STARVATION NOT REPLACING USED-İ [UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP. HORLICKS REGULARY AT BEDTIME
FOR YOU,
AND SO HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT.
M-M-M. DELICIOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS MIXED WELL.
TWO MONTHS LATER:] CONGRATULATIONS, MR.
JACKSON, ON YOUR PROMOTION AS DISTRICT MANAGER. YOU HAVE DONE SPLENDID
WORK.
(THINKS) MY WORRIES ARE ALL OVER. THAT HORLICKS IS WONDERFUL STUFF)
DECIDED TO SEE
A DOCTOR
If you wake tired, if you suffer from 'nerves' enervation and that dread. ful feeling of exhaustion GUARD AGAINST. NIGHT STARVATION
TAKE
HORLICKS
YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE. REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
Horlicks is best made In the special Horlick's mix. er. Obtainable at all good stores-80 cts. large size and 40 cts, small size.
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THERE are always a few doggie men at every dog
horsy ladies, but do not curse so often or so violently. This may be because mixing with doggies is easier on the nerves than mixing with hunting men, show, but the women count, or it may be that doggie ladles next to the dogs, which, as the feel themselves to be of sucer-drawing above shows, are of all dotal status, like the attendants shapes and sizes. of the Dog-god Anubis,
revere
them
The English greatly because they know dogs have supernatural intellects, und a few generations hence, when there are very few people left,
Worked For 20 Years
On Dictionary
A FIVE MILLION-WORDS-WORK, taking 20 years
Many of the dogs are ex- tremely good-looking, capecially the terriers, some of whom are so highly bred that their brains have gone and they are in con- sequence as charming as any no- bleman, though one tires of their conversation even sooner: a con- fession, I am aware, tantamount to admitting that one is hardly a sahib, for all over the Colony this week-end tall bronzed men with small, well-shaped Nordic heads are holding long and pas. sionately interesting colloquies with doggies of all kinds.
and costing £60,000, has just been completed.
THE doggie women. .
Many of them have the Twenty years ago Mr. George Harrap, the publisher, met his friend, Mr. John Mansion, head of the Modern prefix "Mrs." We will watch tail and ears up, giving Ponto a Languages Department at George Watson's College, them to-morrow sticking Rover's final brush, rasping criticisms Edinburgh, and said he thought it would be a good idea to produce a new French-English, English-French dic-and orders, magistral and un- concerned as if they were strid- tionary.
-T. S
Mr. Mansion-agreed-to-give-up-his-teaching post, come to ing round their homes. -London to join Mr. Harrap's firm, and set to work.
CHESS PROBLEMS:
Black
Nos. 91-92 Problem No. 91
13 Pieces
White
9 Pieces White to play and mate in two.
Problem No. 92
Black
9 Pieces!
海魚街 街
海鮮海
9 Pieces
White
White to play and mate in three.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
No. 19
F-KB7
No. Do 1. Kt-QKis
2. Kt(K14)-Q3
2. R-Dich
P-X14
other
.
DIED BEFORE FINISH
Mr. George Harrap saw the com- pletion of the French-English part, but died last autumn before the second was Anished. This WRS published recently,
His gigantle task Anished, Mr. Mansion told of the labour Involved.
"There are 2,500 pages in the two parts," he said,
"There are 140,000 'entries,' but in all, with explanations, etc., the volumes contain 5,000,000 words.
"How does one set about writing a new standard dictionary? Well, it is useless relying on other die- tionaries, because one works to pro- duce something new.
CARD INDEX SYSTEM "The basis is a card indox system. For
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem
No. 99
NORTH
S: KQ J 10, 9 H: K
D: -
C: A Q 3
WEST
EAST
S: 3
SOUTH
S: A
year, with my collaborators, S: 8 7 4 2
H: - I accumulatel cards on which words and all data associated with them D: A K
These were re- were written down.
C: J 10 9 vised from time to time.
"During the 20 years we have filed 300,000 cards which have actually been used for 600,000 entries, those for the French-English volume being written on one side and those for the English-French on the other.
a library of "We have collected over 500 books for reference pur- poses alone.
H: Q J 97
D: 8
C: K.6 5
H: A 10 5 4 3 2
D:-
C: 74
Hearts are-trumps..
North and South to lose only
"To deal with one word-Aviation! one trick. West leads the King -for instance, reference works on of Diamonds. -
the subject in both English and French were obtained and read with great care. Then all words us sociated with aviation In both langu- ages had to be put into the die- tionary.
Solutions to be sent to "Bridge
Problem", Wyndham Street,
SOLUTION TO NO. 38
SOUTH leads CA on which
"To celebrate the completion of NORTH discarde D Q, EAST the task those who have been most and WEST having to follow intimately concerned are going to have a little dinner together and visit a theatre,
"I think," said Mr. Mansion, "that we shall go to French Without Tears.""
GAS MASK ALSO HELMET
BERLIN.
suit.-
At trick (2) SOUTH leads S 7
which WEST has to win with his SJ and NORTH and EAST have to follow sult,
At trick (3) It is immaterial whether WEST plays a heart or a diamond, NORTH is bound to
A special helmet which will pro-Win the trick and the next one vide protection against shrapnel and with his H 10 and D A and on falling debris in air raids zoon will those two tricks SOUTH dis
Germans, The be available
wearer does not come in contact with cards his SA and SK thus un- blocking NORTH's three good metal parts and it is Hght enough to
tricks. bn worn for a long time without dis- spades which take the last three
comfort.
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