By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.

Pat's looks like a washerwoman, and mine, which I like the best, is a lobsterwoman with a lobsterbaby on her lap.

[…] the indigents whose universal complaint seemed to be boils resulting from malnutrition and oversitting.

Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.