High School boy: "What is periphrafiis?" Father: "It is simply a circumlocutory and pleomastic cyelo of oratorical eonorojlty, circumscribing an atom of ideality lost in a verbal profundity." Son: "Thanksl I think I'l'i take a job in the flax swamp."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 284, 27 August 1919, Page 8
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40Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 284, 27 August 1919, Page 8
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