A hard-driving taxi-driver ignored a red signal, threatend the traffic policeman’s knees, missed the street island by a hair, and grazed a bus, all in one dash. The policeman hailed him, and strolled over to the taxi, pulling a big handkerchief from his pocket en route. "Listen, cowboy!” he growled. "On the way back I’ll drop this and see if you can pick it up with yer teeth.”
“Can you imagine it! I know of a chorus girl who in only a few months made a millionaire out of a man she married.” “Was he a poor man when she married him?” “No, he was a multimillionaire!”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)
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