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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
5
Crusty manager John McGraw often instructed pitchers before games. He told a rookie to waste a pitch, then watched as the next delivery yielded a line drive triple. The rookie argued he aimed high, saying his pitch was right at the batter’s waist.
A humorous caption plays on Venus de Milo lacking arms to joke about eating without hands. The quip wryly contrasts wit with the sculpture’s famous missing limbs.
A class elocution tale has a boastful pupil told to bow and exit on tiptoes after his address. The instructor aims to spare the audience from waking the impatient speaker’s ego with a quiet exit.
A rich, pompous man stops at a farm house and asks a boy to hold his horse. The boy asks if the horse bites or kicks or runs away. The man says no to each, prompting the boy to question why he needs help.
A Swede living near the Minnesota Wisconsin line had a special survey to determine his state. The surveyor ruled he resided in Wisconsin, prompting the man to celebrate with relief at escaping Minnesota winters.
A young man stands trial for breaking into the same millinery shop four times. Asked why he returned, he says he stole a different hat each time for his wife who cannot decide on style.
An autoist travels Colorado mountains and asks a village native if any big men were born there. The local replies no, only little babies, delivering a humorous twist in a compact rural exchange.
Mrs Brown notes her husband joining the Masons while Mrs Green comments on their jars, saying they are nice. The snippet captures informal everyday curiosity about social clubs and domestic conversations.
A sailor in a barber chair orders a short cut for whiskers and hair and then asks to cut the chat ter, prompting the barber to seek clarification about the third element. The exchange has a humorous tone as the sailor presses for a speedy, terse grooming.
In a terse home exchange a wife teases her husband about reading him like a book while he retorts that he lingers on the parts she prefers to skip. The dialogue highlights intimate perception within a marriage.
A daytime frock designed for slightly larger figures features a flattering neckline front closing and scalloped edge trimming with shoulder gathers. Available in floral prints or solid tones, Pattern No 8976 offers sizes 36 through 52. Size 38 with cap sleeve requires 4 yards of 35 inch material.
The quiz covers topics from orange origins to citizenship rules. Answers include China for the orange, farming as the risky occupation, Federal Hall in New York City as Washington’s first inauguration site, apple pie order meaning perfect precision, a two year residence period before citizenship petitions for foreign G I brides, and twenty inhabited Bermuda islands.
The five human senses include taste which varies greatly among people. A piece of paper treated with phenyl thio carbimide yields tasteless to sweet, bitter, sour, or salty experiences for different individuals, illustrating subjective perception.
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