The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-21
THE TYPEWRITER
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That the only way to find out
bow tall you are Is by measuring
yourself from head to toe. (You can
figure out your height by measuring
the length OF the bone in the upper
arm and multiplying it by 5000
What Shakespeare wAs the author
ct "A horse, q horse, my kingdom
Tor Q horse" (The lines were intro
duced into Richard III" by Colley
Uibber, On actor at the Drliry Lane
HheaterD That Boston once
had q law against taking q bath
without q doctors prescription. (T'he
story was started as q gag BY II. L.
Mencker.)
That the Slegfried Line and the
Westwall are synonymous terms for
Qermary's line Of Qualifications.
(The siegfried Line applies to the
Qualifications constructed by the
NaziS oil around Germany. The
Westwail Is only that part Of the
giegfried Line which faces France)
That cold baths are healthful.
(Cold baths are tough on the heart.
especially on weak hearts) . Nj.
That you're paying o woman q
compliment when you describe her
rs having "allure". failure comes
from the French term, ''leurre."
meaning decoy or something false)
That blondes are emotionaliy more
excitable than brunettes. (Recent
scientific tests show that there's
no emotional difference between
blondes and brunettes.) That
most suicides are committed In No
vember. (May, June and July are
the months In which most suicides
occtr.) I. N. That snakes are Shiny.
(Cnly the human variety areO J..
That the new Moscow subway Is
one Of the biggest and best In the
world. cts only one mile long)
That most Of the peaches In
the country come from Georgia. (1f
you're referring to fruit, that state
contributes / per cent Of the ma
tons peaches--and II you're talk
ing about Ooomph Girls, Texas has
Q virtual monopoly
That Little Sir Echo" is new
song. ut was written by an old man
Fearis, In Chicago, for q Girl Scout
troop during the World War) ;.
That the correct pronunciation OF
Viking Is "vike-ing." cts Vick-ing)
That Wall Street possesses q
super natural ability to correctly In
terpret the trend Of national
thought. (Ten weeks before the
1892 election, Wall Street was bet
ting to that Hoover would be
reelected ever Franklin D. Roose-
yelt.)
That an adults height remains
constant. People are taller In the
morning than they are In the even
Ing frequently by as much as half
an encho That u laughing
jackass is an animal. cts q bird)
That Army Generals know
more than civilians about war and
weapons. (They laughed at Maxim
when he tried to sell them his re-
peaGing rifle, and during the World
War the Generals on the British
Army Board scoffed at the idea Of
using armored tanks, which ulti-
mately helped win the war. A high
officer pigeon-holed the plan for
months before II was finally tried
IN desperation)
That coffee 10 bad for the heart.
(Not only Is II untrue, but coffee
or It's active ingredients are pre-
scribed for some weak hearts)
That the Germans are q Teutonic
race. I'm 1915, Or. Chalmers Mitchell
wrote, 1.-THE German nation isn't
Teutonic at all. The English and
Scandinavians and large part OF
France is much more Teutonic than
the Germans. The Germans are very
largely Russian as regards race.~
That the quotation, Cleanliness Is
next to Goodness" Is from the Bible
John Wesley authored II In a ser.
mon.) That CALIFORNIA; auto
drivers are the worst In the world
I'm Paris, an average Of two po-
Ncemen are run down and injured
by motorists every day. That
the only thing trim ankles indi-
cate is that the owner Is popular
with the boys. Grim ankles are q
sign Of O good heart. Puffy ankles