26 Mar 1918
Page 1
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 26, 1918
Page
1
A mosaic of jokes and anecdotes reflects cross cultural humor from heathen gods to legal wit. Bittersweet quips cover kitchen gods and Pan, clerical orders, witnesses, Hindu marriage views, football umpire banter, sculpture gibes, marriage expectations, flirtatious feints, and social pride.
A collection of anecdotal recollections from A. J. Eddy about the famed artist Whistler and various humorous incidents. It recalls a quip about a portrait’s value, a regiment’s crowd control tale, a tall private, a tale with Caesar cleaning windows using whisky, a scientist’s lecture misstep, a clever court exchange, and other bemused vignettes from social life and travel.
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