NEW AMERICAN CRAZE.
“Touching the knocker, 0 at No 10, Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of England, lias, become an American craze that threatens to rival the small boy’s enthusiasm for collecting cigarette cards. Detectives on duty outside the bouse sa.v that the habit began with the first invasion of the American visitors last June, and a?* Irish policeman remarked that it is liko kissing tLiS Blarney Stone. i'ho caretaker at No. 10 cannot explain the craze. •It is quite new to me,” he said to a “Daily Mail ’ reporter yesterday. ‘ I I they knocked and ran away I could understand it. but this touching business is beyond me. I expect they will soon be kissing the doorstep l”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 17
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123NEW AMERICAN CRAZE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 17
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