Newspapers: Spoofing the Despots

Friday, Jan. 21, 1966

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^{* Named for the portly, garrulous parish beadle of Charles
Dickens' Oliver Twist, who, upon being told by a judge that a woman is
subservient to her husband, asserted: "If the law supposes that, the
law is a ass—a idiot."}