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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 6

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HIGH Nazi official told an interviewer he was once a traveller in perambulators. Weren’t we all?, * * * " RE there loopholes in the blockade on enemy exports?" asks a writer. A certain number of German measles have got through. * * * YIENNESE lion-tamer got married in a cage of lions instead of a church. The coward! * * . "T CAN’T meet my bills," a man told a magistrate last week, Heavens, we meet them every week. % * * "DOES a shell often explode by accident?" asks a correspondent. No, only once. * ~ " N Eastern potentate has a 21-stone Court functionary whose sole duty it is to ensure that his royal master keeps cool. A very large fan male. * * * . MOTORIST admitted in court that he had driven over a policeman’s foot. He regretted the incident, but could not help feeling proud of his car when he did not have to. change gear. * * * RETURNED London school-teacher says that her favourite fried potatoes were unobtainable at her country billet. She Mr. Chips. * * * "*T "HE youth of to-day is not interested in classical architecture," says a writer. At a very early age he prefers to build flats of blocks. * * * AZI airmen use very strong language, according to a neutral journalist. Flying Blue-Pencils? * * "js your wife fond of listening in?" "Not half as much as speaking out!" * * * ‘4, CCORDING to a psychologist, a baby has three " methods of expressing emotion-laughing, crying, and crooning. Later in life it smashes golf-clubs. . Se * * HEN a well-known actress sang in an American \"" prison some of the convicts broke down and wept. Our British convicts would have taken their medicine like men, i