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Fascism is five years old, and behaves just like that. —Albany Knickerbocker Press. * * » The greatest invention of the age would be a mechanical taxpayer.— Dallas News. About the only thing that will really stop falling hair is the floor. —Publishers Syndicate. Every man has his day. The pedestrian has the right of way in an ambulance. —Anaheim Plain Dealer. There isn’t much more science can do for the kitchen, except to invent an electric can opener.—Sacramento Dee. # • Public speaking is the art of dilu inc a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. —San Diego Union. Owing to the unexplainable laxuesgs of Mayor Thompson it is still possib> to order an English mutton chop in the o\Mtlying districts of Chicago.— Brooklyn Eagle. • » • The fact that a Texas cowboy fell out of bed and broke his collar bone probably will lead to a movement to put stirrups on nightmares.—New York Evening Post. Shrinking Violet.—Mother: 4 Oswald, you should never do anything which you would be ashamed for th« whole world to see.” Oswald: "Hooray: I won’t have Vo *s»ke any more baths.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 23
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182TOPICAL TITBITS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 23
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