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LL this world needs to ensure peace, perfect peace, is the total prohibition of the private manufacture of shirts--Eve’s Journal. * > * SWIMMING the English Channel, which now appears to be a universal pastime, has no allure for me whatsoever.-Lord Castlerosse. 1% * * ‘THE New Yorker gets married when he’s got the price of an automobile, In America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring.-Picture Post. * 1% * ; AN abandoned night club at 19 East Cedar Street was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Children. had been playing there, and firemen thought the fire started because some tot was careless with a cigar-ette.-Chicago Daily News, %* ES * F Art is a means of communication between the artist and his fellow-men, its expression must surely be such as can be understood by the people. , -‘The Listener," England. * a 4 ‘THE press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate’s greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a greater mumbler of long words than Arthur Vandenberg.- Senator H. F. Ashurst, self-styled " peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language" in a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ickes, U.S.A. * 3% JN Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer.-Time. % a) Bo T° read a book because all others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertis-ing.-Pearl Buck. % * * W/ HEN a passenger of the foot hoves into sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigour, and express by mouth the warning, "Hi, Hi.""-From Tokio traffic rules in English. x % % [ov= and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other.-Jean Cocteau, French intellectual.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 7
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342SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 7
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