TOPICAL TITBITS
No, it’s John Barrymore, not Marrymore. —Tampa Tribune. • * * Business success falls to the “ad”venturous. —Wall Street Journal. * * * Physician says one million women are overweight. These, of course, are round figures. —Arkansas Gazette. * » * “Man’s next great war will be with insects.” Who ever heard of a war without them? —Washington Post. * * * “Should an airplane be referred to as ‘she’?” asks an inquiring subscriber. All except the mail planes. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. * * * Intelligence Test: Any collection of forty or fifty questions to which the eminent psychologist giving the test happens to know the replies. —Detroit News. * * * Again comes assurance that the wets are to be smitten hip and thigh; the former, at least, is a singularly vulnerable point. —Cincinnati Times-Star. » * * “Putting Planes Within Reach of the Man in the Street,” says “The Digest.” Well, the automobile shouldn’t have a monopoly of the hit-and-run sport. —Fountain Inn (S.C.) Tribune. * * * Wo learn from the Press that broadcasting has added five hundred words to the average radio fan’s vocabulary. And we wouldn’t dare to print any of them, •—Judge.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 25 February 1929, Page 4
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