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q17.
i: On what was Smiler fed?
ii: Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
iii: Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
iv: Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
v: What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
vi: Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
vii: To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
viii: Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
ix: What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
x: Whence the Cholmeleians?
INCOMPLETE: we need ii, viii and ix!
i: On what was Smiler fed?
ii: Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
iii: Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
iv: Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
v: What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
vi: Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
vii: To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
viii: Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
ix: What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
x: Whence the Cholmeleians?
INCOMPLETE: we need ii, viii and ix!
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A London dining-club is a curious organism, for it combines great tenacity of life with a chameleon-like tendency to change its colour. A club which begins as a haunt of roysterers may end as a blameless academic fraternity; another, which at the start is a meeting-place of the intelligent, becomes in the progress of time a select coterie of sportsmen. So it has been with the institution of which I am the chronicler. It has changed its name and is now the Thursday Club, and the number of permissible members has been increased. Its dinners are admirable; conversation at its board is dignified and a little serious; it has enlarged its interests, and would not now refuse a Lord Chancellor or a Bishop.
But in its infancy it was different. Founded just after the close of the War by a few people who had been leading queer lives and wanted to keep together, it was a gathering of youngish men who met only for reminiscences and relaxation. It was officially limited to fifteen members--fifteen, because a dozen was dull, thirteen was unlucky, and fourteen had in those days an unpleasing flavour of President Wilson and his points. At first, until Burminster took it in hand, the food and wine were execrable; hence the name of the Runagates Club, given it by Lamancha from the verse in the 68th Psalm: "He letteth the runagates continue in scarceness."
But all defects in the fare were atoned for by the talk…