Question Box Answers From Mr Wynn and Others
A collection of humorous Q A exchanges from the Associated Newspapers WNU Service. Items cover prison work choice, insomnia remedies, why a giraffe’s neck is long, a friend’s wedding, a tall man appearing shorter after marriage, and entertaining customers with waffles and alphabet soup.
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Mr. Wynn
Lingplace
The
Associated Newspapers
WNU
Barbados’s peaceful history under the British flag noted
The Detroit News writer cites Barbados as having the cleanest early history in the Western Hemisphere. Uninhabited when the Olive Blossom claimed it in 1603 and again when English settlers arrived in 1627, the island saw no dispossession and has maintained a peaceful record under British rule since.
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Barbados
Detroit News
Olive Blossom
A Wonderful Swimmer Named Dippy the Loon
Peter Rabbit and Honker the Goose meet a strange cry from the Big River. Honker explains Dippy the Loon spends summers in the Far North and migrates south. Dippy swims and dives with ease, using back legs as paddles, and can sink underwater with only his head showing. Peter wishes to meet him, but learns Dippy is shy and mostly on water, leaving Peter content with his echoed voice.
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Peter Rabbit
Honker
Goose
Peter
Dippy
Flanker
Bill
Old Man Coyote
Big River
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Bucharest
Predeal
Carpathian Pass
Through a Woman's Eyes by Jean Newton on aging in acting
The piece discusses how actresses face aging without clinging to youth, citing Mary Pickford and Judith Anderson as examples. It contrasts women’s graceful adaptation to time with men’s harder struggle to leave romantic roles, urging realism and common sense over vanity. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Mary Pickford
Judith Anderson
Sarah Bernhardt
Vanity
Bell Syndicate
WNU
The Days That Used to Be by Anne Campbell
A reflective verse recalling happy past days and rustic mornings. The speaker evokes trails, a comforting home, and dawns that seemed blessed by a divine early light. Nostalgia ties present life to cherished springs once lived.
Romania's Bucharest and Danube Delta Portraits
National Geographic notes Bucharest as a cosmopolitan capital with arcades of culture and a stark peasant life nearby. It surveys Danube life from Galati to Braila, detailing gypsies, markets, sturgeon fishing, caviar trade, and the region's blend of Slavic and Romanian influences.
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Bucharest
Arc de Triomphe
Champs Elysees
Romania
Dambovita
Eddie Cantor
I Kansas
Europe
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ED Wynn
Iee Antsliep
Virginia
I. Glass
By Thornton W. Burgess
Jimmy Walker
Ames J. Walker
New York
England
Surrey
Mrs. Walker
Jimmy
Jock
Scotty
Tyhrough
By Jean Newton
Girligags
Weather Report
Irene
Kitty
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Chum
WWNOU
Dapa
Pop
By Anne Campbell
la Guardia
Ere
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Rumania
Paris
France
Balkans
Danube
Sulina
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
European Commission of
Black Sea
Galati
Braila
Valcov
Russia
Yakov
Venice
Alessarabia