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T is reported that Russia is to make a film on the lines of the British propaganda opus, " The Lion Has Wings." It will be called "The Bear Has Finns." * * * MY education cost me one thousand pounds. Yes, one doesn’t get much for money nowadays. * * * Why should that cat Patricia be a major When she’s only second cousin to an earl? Clarice is a colonel, though, I'll wager; Her mother was a common chorus girl. But we mustn't yield to envy or to malice, It our social rank is slighted, we don’t care: Though why should they give a captaincy to Alice? But after all, remember — c'est la geurre. -From a Unity Theatre Revue. * * * SAID the doctor diffidently: "I don’t like to mention it, but that cheque you gave me has come back." Said the patient: "What a coincidence, Doc., so did my rheumatism." * * * T was blowing a Blitzkrieg, and the rain was Hitlering down in great Ribbendrops. The poor girl was soaked to the Siegfried Line, You could not iMaginot worse storm. It was a wonder she didn’t catch a schnitzel, or at least get a bad sauerkraut, but when at last she reached her billets, ersatz down by the fire in the Lebensraum, and grumbled: "I feel Fuehrer-ous!" "Never mind," said her goodnatured landlady, "I'll make you a nice cup of Mein Kamp Coffee."--S. I. Swinglehurst in the "Dark " Horse. * me 7 esos German admonition: Don’t deny it, von Potz. I can smell it on your breath — you’ve been eating again! * ro Pe WALTER WINCHELL, New York columnist, Suggests that instead of giving Lindbergh any more medals, Hitler might change the name of Berlin's street Unter den Linden to Unter den Lindy. * x * SREWITH the latest London name for the Ministry of Information — the Dumb Friends’ League. * * % PV TEEN Australian miners camped on a beach near Wollongong (New South Wales), and in 14 days drank 530 gallons of beer. They said they were members of the Save Yourself Club. * * % OR auction — one 61-year-old horse (suitable for Military), Terms, cash-Ad. in an Australian paper,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 6
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