The Archive · 1940

IN PARENTHESIS

Not Good Enough "Frrenps," apologized the Minister, "I havı unintentionally left my notes at home. I will make a few extemporaneous remarks trusting in the Lord for guidance, but tonight I shall come better prepared."

Women In Uniform "AND remember," said the female sergeant, "members of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service will show their pink forms whenever called upon to do so."

Women Out of Uniform "Wnar! Marry a corporal and sleep in a hut with twenty other men What's Yours Wuen Colonel Walter Guinness, raised to the peerage as Lord Mayne, was taking his seat in the House of Lords, an old peer said to a sprightly young lord at his side, "Mayne, Mayne, Let's see. Who is he?" And the lordling replied brightly, "Moyne's a Guinness!"

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