SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

NEW CLUB. We understand a “Defeated Candidates' " club is to be formed in Moscow in which New Zealand, and now Australia, will be represented. CHOOSING YOUR PAINTING. Mum will go along to-day to the arts and crafts exhibition and kid she knows something about painting because she knows, or thinks she knows, how to put lipstick on, and how to paint whatever else she sticks on her face. WHICH WAR? Dear "Sandy."—Your poeni about Pete rescuing the Fifth Brigade from Crete in 1941 just, about fills the bill. I read recently that a Labour candidate—now electioneering, said that when the history of the war came to be written, Peter Fraser's name would be written in letters of gold, for he had done so much to win it. Which war do you think he meant. “Sandy?" Yours Truly. "MAN FRIDAY." "WHAT’S IN A NAME?" Dear "Sandy,"—Chambers' 90th. Century Dictionary tells us— I Semple. A Scottish form of “simple," the opposite form of “Gentle." A certain “Bob" of that “ilk" is well known for the abusive epithets hurled at persons opposed to him; is he to be excused or condemned. What do you think? I am etc., “THE SAINT." He can hardly be condemned, seeing what lie is.—“S."