The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 1

The Critic

"PROHIBITION is dead," says a con--1 temporary. And we have embalmed iit m whisky. • ■-. ■■■#•'■■ '■ *■•...■# THERE'S, a lot of give-and-take * about all our -politicians, but the take is m the taies and the give m their knees. , . ■ '. ■ ' ■■ * ■ •'■ * ■/ # ■ • DUX DUX, says a writer, is the name of a powerful New Guinea society. Remarkable birds/; these islanders. ,•■'.-■•■■• " ..'' '■#.'■ ■■•'■' * '; ' ■ BOWLING Association has specifically banned bad language on the greens. .No doubt, out of respect for the presence of! Kitty!. ' ■■■#'■■.■ ..■■• #.■ *

COME men are' at their best when " they're ale-ing. : " . ■ * •'■■.-■■.. .• ■',■•*■ QUR colored supplement: Black, brown and br indie immigrants. ' - ; ■'•'■'#.■' ■■'■#' * • " ■ I ATEST car designed to break the v world's speed record is cigarshaped. It ought to smoke along all right "■ '- •. ' : : --',*, " '• . ■•• '" ■'.. * y "COMB experts," says a contemporary, v , '?show; that. crimina.ls are mainly unskilled drifters." On the contrary, we think theydo their work very well. ■■ . : : # ■ ■■.#■■ •:.«•■■■.: THOUGH children have been spanked * for a million yea.rs,: they're no better for it.» y?e seem to have touched rock -.bottom. , '• '.'-.■■ .... * ■'•■'. : * ■'•' .- ■ ■'■*•-. ' DESTAURANT keepers' may know 1V nothing of the antiquity^ of Rome, but scores are familiar with the glory that is -grease." ■