COMING ROUND THE BEND
with
Denis
Glover
HE best way to deal with calamity is to keep it at harm’s length. O admit your faulty is not to correct them, but at least it anticipates your friends. WORDS are good servants, but like ‘bad masters they have to be put in their place. GOT a deep-freeze glance when I toJd him his was a veracious attitude. I think he thought I thought it a voracious one. OW many wives think their husbands married, them not as a treasure but a treasurer? ARCHING girls have added a new horror to matrimony. Many a poor shambling male will have to take his
orders from an ex-majorette. And inevitably some of them will be marching orders. EOPLE who are cheerful by themselves save the expense of going to perpetual parties. THING about Italians is that they make such successful Americans. SENTIMENT should be simmered gently, not fried in olive oil, V E were mildly astonished when a newcomer to these shores told us she was simply dying to taste our famous tuatara soup.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 14
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180COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 14
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