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...port of Taranto, after the British occupied it last week, a correspondent asked an Italian merchant-marine captain and an Italian army lieutenant what they thought of their Government's surrender. "Ah," said the lieutenant, "we had not heard of that...
...Freshman walks into a barber shop and sits down for a leisurely haircut. "Is you wanna shev" says barber. Ah, small talk, thinks Freshman, and mumbles "Oh sure, sure." "Mepsbe you wanna shempa" queries barber, but the Freshman still in his rut says "Oh sure" again. And so it goes until suddenly the poor boy is immersed in towels scalded scorched and burned. His proud growth of youthful fuzzies is severed from its loving owner...
...ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other as God bears with us all"). On one civic committee he sat with a Quaker, William Martin. When ever the evils of liquor were discussed Quaker Martin would say: "Ah, Theobald Mathew, if thou wouldst take the matter up." One day Father Mathew swore off whisky punch, signed a total abstinence pledge...
Alexander R (i) ves got news the other day that another of his Virginia Belles got married and R(i)ves said immediately, "Ah jus gotta get me some leave soon oah m' whole stable will be a-goin tuh the dawgs...
...food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...