There
was a chronic shortage of blankets at ‘Mary’s’, and the only way of getting
enough of them was to rob somebody else’s bed Hence the term ’smash and
grab raiders’
In the morning, half an hour before opening time, Dorothy went to the
nearest public library to look at the advertisements in the newspapers Already
a score of vaguely mangy-lookmg people were up and down, and the
number swelled by ones and twos till there were no less than sixty Presently
the doors of the library opened, and in they all surged, racing for a board at the
other end of the reading-room where the ‘Situations Vacant’ columns from
various newspapers had been cut out .
was a chronic shortage of blankets at ‘Mary’s’, and the only way of getting
enough of them was to rob somebody else’s bed Hence the term ’smash and
grab raiders’
In the morning, half an hour before opening time, Dorothy went to the
nearest public library to look at the advertisements in the newspapers Already
a score of vaguely mangy-lookmg people were up and down, and the
number swelled by ones and twos till there were no less than sixty Presently
the doors of the library opened, and in they all surged, racing for a board at the
other end of the reading-room where the ‘Situations Vacant’ columns from
various newspapers had been cut out .
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter
