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...Manchester, England, one "Smottox" Kerrigan, chauffeur, stood in the back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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