JOKING AT WAR
4 LIVELY COCKNEY HUMOUR UNQUENCHED. The ordeal of bombing ha- md quenched the lively Cockney humour which is so typical of London. In a leading article <>n ‘ '’War Lord.-: and War Jokes” "The Times" uiy -.—•'Civilian humour is plucky. Reliant and derisive of the enemy. A correspondent told the other day of the bombed coffee-shop that ‘more open than usual — n typical joke. A newsvendor has long been delighting the passers-by with hts posters. <»f which the best perhaps. has been 'The Italians W'li the Boat Race’; and current storiess-n-h as that of the Italian ailur wir--e doctor advised him to take a o-a voyage, and that of the Italian officer who on the approach of the enemy drew sword and rut dowti a th show a reiidihetis to joke winch dues not connote any -eriotn- tindervM.i.it ■ •it a rlangerou foe Word;. an.! ; itiav be hoped, are bcmg colleclcd '•aimeCsUC With ,1 ktlowh'd};*' ■ ■ tits’ ! which such things throw on 'Ju.- ■ !.=w:t '■logy ami social history o; a jx'ople fruitful source •>' obi w.-.» th.- ratine t.il journals; to which wadded thi- new type vf air raid twite: j.urmd •
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 6
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190JOKING AT WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 6
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