Winsome Walter
It you are in America and are neither a famous mannequin, a film star, an Army chief nor one of the President’s secretaries, but still want to "get somewhere,’ you had better become a columnist in a newspaper, because all the best people are. You will be in the august company of the president’s wife, Mrs. Roosevelt, Dorothy ‘Thomson, Hugh Johnson — and Walter Winchell, Perhaps Winchell is the most famous of them all. Here are some of the more famous Winchellisms: The best way to erase a friendship is to sponge on it. Will you please stop talking? My ear is limping! His razor always cuts him, It’s the first razor I’ve ever seen with an opinion. Her train of thought is usually late. People who are always kicking seldom have a leg to stand on,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 25, 15 December 1939, Page 41
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138Winsome Walter New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 25, 15 December 1939, Page 41
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