Old News

"Have you tried it yet?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.

"Heaven is won by living, not by dreaming."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

"Set him on fire.  What to do with the litter lout."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.

"I can see for thousands of miles."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.

"Purge of ghosts."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.

"Don't quote me on that but ..."  From Loyola University's 1996 yearbook.

"Coping is fun—but I cry sometimes."  From Australian Womens' Weekly, 1962.

"Amazing realtites.  Kicked by a grasshopper and scratched by a butterfly.  A cheese that burst asunder."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

From The Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison, 1990.

"Because I choose not to be dependent."  From Western Carolina University's 1996 yearbook.

"The non-conformist and the gorillas."  From Harper's Magazine, 1960.

From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Wanna be a bearded lady?"  From Earlham College's 1949 yearbook.

"Pigs in a cathedral."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1947.

"Her happiness is not elastic.  Viola's husband wants to stretch felicity out like gum."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  The headline makes it sound like the husband is the villain, but the wife lovelessly married him merely to acquire information for a novel she planned to write, distastefully likening to the stretching of gum his willingness to remain married to her long-term.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Invisible beings walk the earth.  Do the dead walk among us, unseen, giving us their aid and guidance?"  From Fate Magazine, 1948.

"Enchantment is waiting round the corner."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.

"Are you a nobody?"  Here's how we answered that question.

From The Old Line, 1951.

"If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane."  From Peace College's 1997 yearbook.

"Millionaire's dream of perfect babies comes to naught."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.