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ll i i el IFE in the Arctic is very good. Letters come L but rarely. There are no newspapers to disturb one’s peace of mind, and nobody locks a door. Perhaps Max Polorum is the only real peace in this world.-Quentin Riley, broadcasting about polar expeditions. Ea * * A STRIKING feature of the world to-day is the elevation of the lie into a principle of action. -Dean of Chichester. % * Ea HE human mind has never displayed any special readiness to accept the truth.-Dr, Ss. Freud. * * * *"y'HE Royal garden party is just like Heaven. Some are taken and some are not.-Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Washington. 2X ES * Hew did classics come to be classics but by being easier to read than other books.Arundell Esdaile. * * * THESE old music-hall ditties supply a gap in the national history. In some ways films and wireless are a poor substitute for the halls of old, and national emotions in times of crisis find one outlet barred.J. B.- Booth. * * x MEN are much quicker at handing up their fares and tickets than women.-A tram conductor, interviewed on the air. %* * * AN elephant can pick up a threepenny piece with his trunk. I'll go further and say he could pick up a pin with it-Curator of Wellington Zoo, * ES * UEEN ELIZABETH would not let John Cuts go to Spain as ambassador because they would . laugh at his name. So she dubbed him peer and called him Lord Selsington-From "What's in a Name?" * * * I RECOGNISED Gilbert but I never spotted Sullivan all night-Bernard Manning, reporting a Newcastle miner’s comments on "H.M.S. Pinafore." * * * VW EEANGTON laughed more spontaneously than any audience I can remember, but at Masterton I added my name to the dressing room "roll of honour" for comedians. who "died the death."Ivan Menzies, retrospective about his New Zealand tour. * * *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 7
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