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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

Release Date: January 18, 2007 [EBook #20392]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 159

NOVEMBER 24, 1920.

CHARIVARIA.

No sooner had the League of Nations met at Geneva than news came of the
pending retirement of Mr. CHARLIE CHAPLIN. We never seem to be able to
keep more than one Great Idea going at a time.

* * *

"Have you read Mrs. Asquith's Book?" asks an evening paper
advertisement. "What book?" may we ask.

* * *

"In our generation," says Dean INGE, "there are no great men." It is
said that Sir ERIC GEDDES will not take this lying down.

* * *

Since the Gloomy Dean's address at Wigmore Hall it is suggested that the
world should be sold to defray expenses while there is yet time.

* * *

"What is wanted to-day," says Mr. H. M. RIODEN, "is a Destruction of
Pests Bill." "Jaded Householder" writes to say that when this becomes
law anybody can have the name of his rate-collector.

* * *

"M. RHALLIS, the new Greek Premier," says _The Evening News_, "is a
regular reader of _The Daily Mail_." We had felt all along he was one of
us.

* * *

"Dendrology," says a contemporary, "is an admirable pursuit for
women." We seem to remember, however, that one of the earliest female
arboriculturists made a sad mess of it.

* * *

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