Proudly Mrs Hobson showed some of her acquaintances over her new home. “Is your husband a bibliomaniac? ” asked one visitor when shown into the library, where every book was a leatherbound edition de luxe. The hostess stared coldly at her questioner. “He doesn’t bibble. Not that he won’t take a drop now and then with his meals if the rest do. But that’s as far as he goes.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25939, 2 November 1946, Page 12
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