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Following on from the anagrams featured in the last issue of "BookBrowse Recommends", here are a few more:

Public notices:
Slot machines = Cash lost in 'em
The public art galleries = Large picture halls, I bet

Culinary commentary:
Semolina = Is no meal

Matter of fact:
Snooze alarms = Alas! No more Z's
Animosity = Is no mmity
Contradiction = Accord not in it

Political:
Ronald Reagan = A darn long era.
Leroy Newton Gingrich = Yon right-winger clone.
Margaret Thatcher = That great charmer.
The Conservative Party = Teacher in vast poverty

Mind-boggling! (and, just in case you're wondering, we did double check that this is accurate!)

To be or not to be; that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. (Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act III, scene I).
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In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

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