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HE Trojan War was fought because of: one very beautiful woman. This one is being fought because of one very ugly man.-A, P, Herbert, M.P. * a Ea "Rv SHOOTING. Good Prosp-cts for . the Summer."--The Times. BS * H, blast it!-BBC man who went on the ait by mistake recently, % oo * S re TAMING OF THE SHREW, from a play by William Shakespeare, added Sic , Sam Taylor.-Hollywood advertisement, | x * * [* parents in this country give their children topical and newsy war names, let them choose such spirited names as James Spitfire, or Robert Hurri-cane.-London evening paper. * % * HE dogfight as to who is to pay for the war, will be worth watching.-Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. * * x ORD HAW-HAW seems to qualify as flopa-ganda.-Toronto Daily Star. * * * 8 precscx: to-day is a paralytic shuffle with no form of beauty. If this represents the youth of England, God help England!-Lord Mayor of Bristol. Ed 2 a e ERHAPS the loveliest self-delusion we are enjoy~ ing at the moment is the picture of America acting as a sweet holier-than-thou peacemaker when the war ends.-Lawrence Hunt, New York, * * BS pSANce is returning to the grandees the ae taken away from them by the Republic. Now all that remains to be done is to make poverty Pepe with the masses.-New Yorker. ok % * HAVE never seen such hideous hats as women are wearing now. Most of them seem to consist of a curtain down the back and a bunch of flow attached in front-Sir Walter Gilbey, aged 80, * * * eure SCOLDING wife can say endless disconcerting things, and she hits or misses; but a. silent woman says everything.-H, G. Wells,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 7
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268SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 7
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