Invite by BBC to introduce Great Britain's latest tune was dark, vivacious Comedienne Bobo Daniels, star of over 250 old-time Hollywood flickers, now the plump and 40 wife of the British cinema star, Ben Lyon. Sang she:
John Bull has written a message and sent it off by clipper plane today...
It just said: "Thanks, Mr. Roosevelt, it's swell of you.
You'll see the British Empire smiling through When at last these dark, stormy days are gone. And Franklin, by the way, please convey Our congratulations to the folks in the U.S.A. We're saying, "Thanks, Mr, Roosevelt, We're proud of you for the way you're helping us Mathematical Prodigy Proressor Phelps, who disliked mathematics, was once walking with Professor Newton, who began discussing a problem so deep that his companion could not follow it. He fell into a brown study from which he was aroused by Newton's emphatic assertion, "And that, you see, gives us X!"
"Does it?" asked Mr. Phelps, politely.
"Why, doesn't it?" exclaimed the Professor, excitedly, alarmed at the possibility of a flaw in his calculations. Quickly he checked back and detected a mistake. "You are right, Mr. Phelps," shouted the professor. "It doesn't give us X; it gives us Y."
And from that time on Professor Phelps was looked upon as a mathematical prodigy, the first man who ever trapped Newton. credible witness would hava us believe, why not a swan? I admit that I find little support for my theory; and when I called upon Brewer's Dictionary for some friendly help I only found Coleridge's rude lines:
"Swans sing before they die;'twereno bad thing Did certain persons die before they sing" Further comment on my part is superfluous: I merely repeat my question why should swans not sing?—ES-w,
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