Wife (bitterly): “John, before ws were married you always took met» dances in a taxi; now you take me in a tram.” John; “If I take you in a taxi, darling, nobody can see you; but in a tram everybody can admire yon in your evening wear.” Thereupon she was pleased immensely. London has 112,000 motor cycles. 250.000 private cars and taxis, and 91.000 goods vehicles, as compared with Berlin’s 44,000 motor cycles, 55,000 private cars and taxis, and 16,000 goods vehicles. After-dinner speech: To er—-er is human.
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Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 11
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