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It’s Good to be Merry and Wise

‘Alpha of the Plough’ thought the Victorians understood Christmas and New Year better than we do.

Today December 23

‘Alpha of the Plough’ thought the Victorians understood Christmas and New Year better than we do.

Writing in full knowledge of the horrors of the Great War, columnist Alfred Gardiner found early twentieth-century sneering towards the past a little hard to bear. The kind of progress we had made, he said, had not given us that right, and it was particularly grating to hear the moderns scorn their grandparents’ idea of how to keep Christmas and New Year.

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Join each group of ideas together to make a single sentence, in as many ways as you can.

People disparage the previous generation. Every generation does it. The next one will disparage ours. [Compare. Past. Parent.]

We send each other cards at Christmas. We write greetings in them. They reflect society’s values. [Exchange. Reveal. Wish.]

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