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WOMAN BOOED

• TIAI L’TY-1 IKAI)FD” PKRSON” SCOLD KID AGED GOLFER A woman gut on a London bus, states the livening News. Sitting opposite her was an elderly man with a bag of golf clubs. She looked at him, and after a few seconds exclaimed:— “The very idea, playing golf in war time! You should be out digging potatoes or something!” The man replied very politely:— “Afadain, J am 71. and served in the last war. lam on my way to take niy sick wife from a nursing home to Cornwall. 1 play golf to keep myself fit and not he a. nuisance to other people. “I can readily believe that you were one of those empty-headed creatures who presented white leathers ...to wounded soldiers in ‘civvies’ during tlie last war.’ The other passengers began* to boo the woman. The booing went on, and eventually the woman got* off the bus —very red in the face.

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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 255, 6 November 1939, Page 1

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155

WOMAN BOOED Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 255, 6 November 1939, Page 1

WOMAN BOOED Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 255, 6 November 1939, Page 1

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