THE PREGNANT PHRASE.
A refugee professor entered a restaurant and, speaking English with the acquired precision which so often shames the nativeborn, ordered "Figs and cream" The Waitress brought a dish of figs covered with' cream. " "I ordered figs AND cream" the professor protested. "There they are” she retorted* "But this is figs WITH cream" he persisted. "But I don’t see.." she began, bewildered. p "Madam" said the professor, icily, "would you say a woman and child were the sane as a woman with child ?"
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Gun Flash, Issue XIII, 27 March 1943, Page 4
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85THE PREGNANT PHRASE. Gun Flash, Issue XIII, 27 March 1943, Page 4
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