... WWLl squeak I SEE, said the wife, looking up from her newspaper, that a man who can fc speak eight languages has just married a -fa woman who can speak four. H'm, remarked the husband, that seems to be about the right handicap. AT a foreign conference ...

... years when you are only thirty-five now Overtime A politician made an inspection of a prison. After the tour he was asked to speak to the inmates. My fellow citizens, he started, addressing his audience. Then he remembered that when one goes to prison one ...

... names and disguises. At the drop of a hat, or the value of the pound, she can switch from one nationality to another, and she speaks twenty-seven languages like a native. The plans you have to retrieve are pasted to her skin, but, with her usual cunning, ...

... door so that we were alone. Do you speak English? I asked hopefully. No, he did not speak English. Nor French. Nor Italian. His face expressed a courteous regret and no hint of reproach that I. in Austria, should speak no Austrian. I mustered all my weak ...

... seemed like hours, and realising that his audience were not as attentive as they might be, he said That 's all right I 'm speaking for the benefit of posterity. From the back of the hall someone drawled Yes, and if you don't get done pretty soon, they ...

... packed his pipe with a brand of tobacco which smoked just like the advertisement. It was all too much for him, poor chap. Speaking at a dinner he gave a compe tent talk on the international situation, and one of his most fascinated listeners was a gentleman ...

... he could perhaps still pay for his A.B. (Harvard '66) by, for example, teaching the local branch of the English- Speaking Union how to speak English. ...

... city's public square. Why not he said It will give us shade in summer, shelter in winter and oppor tunity to the birds to speak for all of us. Compiled by Jay Jay ...

... silence, said A hen The turn was over, and the orchestra was silent for a while. I say, said the conductor, leaning over to speak to his first violin, whatever key were you playing in Skeleton key, replied the violinist. Skeleton key What in the world ...

... the terror-stricken people in the theatre. Shame facedly, they sank back one by one into their seats. Slowly, as if about to speak, the man strode to where there was now an open avenue of exit. Then, without a moment's hesitation, he rushed for the door ...

... infants should be brought to the church punctually JL. at three o'clock. I The old vicar, who was deaf, thought the curate was speaking of the new hymn-books which had just been issued. He therefore added Any person not so provided can obtain one in the vestry ...

... the baby because we could get delivery sooner. The old lady was very much against smoking and took every opportunity of speaking against it. Seeing an old gentleman obviously enjoying his pipe, she couldn't resist telling him about the evils of tobacco ...