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AR has been stripped of any glamour it had. Most of the poets deal with the fate to which they would like to consign Hitler, and that is not regarded as a suitable theme for good poetry.-London Poetry Society. * * * Y goodness, but skirts are short this year!-First remark of Mrs. S. D. Burson, U.S.A., when her sight was restored after nine years’ blindness. * * * R. and Mrs, Fletcher Harrison entertained fifty friends last night at a cocktail party on their souse-boat.-"New York Herald Tribune." 2k ok * "THE terrible geography lesson still goes on.-‘The New Yorker," commenting on the war news. 2 * ok "T OMMIES have been forbidden to write x x x x at the end of letters because enemy agents might use this symbol to indicate the numbers of divisions of air squadrons in a particular area.-" News Chronicle,’ London. * * * IN Buenos Aires, when a man wants to assure you he is speaking the truth he says " Englishman’s word!" — Australian broadcaster, *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 62, 30 August 1940, Page 8
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162SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 62, 30 August 1940, Page 8
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