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If I’d Had a Fiver…
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix – Jan 3, 1948 If I’d Had a Fiver… Some of the things we read in the papers about the world in which we live are almost as hard to believe as the things we read in fairy-tale books. I find it hard to believe, for example, that a boy of fifteen can […]
Figures are Depressing
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix – Oct 11, 1947 Figures are Depressing I have been reading in the current “Listener” a rather alarming quotation from a recent report of the Bermondsey Public libraries. “If,” said the report, “all the books used during the past year by readers in Bermondsey were put side by side along the pavement, they […]
“The Time of Our Lives”
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix – Aug 30, 1947 “The Time of Our Lives” I have had a letter from a reader asking me to write something in praise of austerity. “Taking into consideration the state of our country just now,” my correspondent asks, “is there anything so very dreadful in the fact that silk hats and white […]
Robert Lynd 