Prices are lower here. Supper and fruit sets from 3s- 9d at Minsons. Cxenuine China W. and G. Breakfast Cups and Saucers reduced to 9sd (job lot). Another job line actually only sd, Cup and Saucer. Minsons. 6 The earliest example of the phrase, “The Skin of his Teeth” quoted in the Large Oxford Dictionary is from the Geneva Bible (1560, in the Book of Job xix. 20): “I have escaped with the skinne of my tethe.” Tfie phrase appears in the Authorised Version in the form “ I am escaped with the skin Qi my teeth.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 5
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