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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146,
by Various
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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914
Author: Various
Editor: Owen Seaman
Release Date: May 22, 2008 [EBook #25560]
Language: English
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL 146
JUNE 24, 1914.
CHARIVARIA.
The Cambridge University Boat Club has decided to spend £8,000 in improving the Cam. There is talk of making it into a river.
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Says a writer in a contemporary, "Don't live in a houseboat during a flood." And yet NOAH always declared that he owed his life to having done so.
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The gentlemen who formed M. RIBOT'S Cabinet are objecting to being described as "The One-Day Ministry." They were, they assert, in office for some hours more than that.
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The attack on M. RIBOT'S Ministry in the matter of the Three Years' Service was led in the Chamber by three quite undistinguished Socialists; and the contest was described succinctly by an unsympathetic onlooker as "Trois ânes v. Trois ans."
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