SOME WISECRACKS.
ON CURRENT AFFAIRS. CLEVER WITTICISMS. Nothing is so painful as a business woman using sex appeal she doesn't possess.—Harlan Miller. Here's what I've found out about Success: five meals a day isn't good for you.—Bam Shipman. Build castles in the air; then put foundations under them. —Thoreau. The insect pest that does America the most harm is still the humbug.—■ Buffalo News. Each year conversation takes off another garment. —David Seabury. It was the night club that discovered the relationship of gauze and effect. — New York Post. Better to make a life than a living. —Abraham Lincoln.
Dictatorship Is like a great beech tree—nice to look at but nothing grows under it.—Stanley Baldwin. The poor fish who used to jump out of the frying pan into the fire now dodges a flivver to land under a truck. —Judge, New York.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 9 August 1937, Page 4
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