26-03-2018, 09:33 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
1937: The importance of sportThis little lad is leaving home for the first to take up his place in a Preparatory School. He is very young and his hat has been bought to allow for future growth. This piece of advice offered concerns sport. This accurately reflects that sport is considered very much more important than mere academic learning.
27-03-2018, 09:37 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
Originally Posted by Mr Magoo
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1943: Not preparing well for D Day This cartoon is taking a light hearted look at the preparations for the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. The sergeant is unlikely to accept this aid to swimming.
29-03-2018, 09:36 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
1943: Shortages bite even at ChristmasDavid Langdon is commenting on the all-pervasive effect of shortages. What parents really did was to try and to find simpler, cheaper alternatives as presents. There certainly were many pettifogging rules and regulations.
30-03-2018, 09:42 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
1943: Mass ProductionThe scene is a canteen in a huge factory concerned with production in support of the war effort. In the lower part of the picture we see a woman reading a letter in which she is told that she is the only girl in the world. The picture demonstrates that she is nothing of the sort. Of course the writer had meant that to him she is the only girl in the world. But that didn’t stop the cartoonist from producing this picture.
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