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It may be set down as a plain, unvarnished, Teutonic lie that fuel has become so scarce in the States that minstrel shows will soon be abolished by Federal order because of a lack of burnt cork.
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Just think! After the war is over it'll be like going from boyhood into manhood. We'll "graduate into long trousers" again.
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Over in the States, Mondays have been declared legal holidays because of the shortage of coal. But over here, with coal and wood even scarcer, we drill on washday, whether or no.
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[What puzzles us is how Great Britain, on a diet of that warm beer,] can continue to produce tanks that terrorize the Germans.
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Mrs. Margaret Deland says she wishes every soldier in the army might see "Damaged Goods." Shucks, Mrs. Deland; we all saw damaged goods when we got our belated Christmas packages.