Great news!  "You still have time."  From an ad in 1956.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

"Don't buy blue sky!"  From The Film Daily, 1926.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

"Now is the silly season when you must keep your weather-eye peeled!"  From The Film Daily, 1939.

"The secret will be divulged."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.

Here's why we don't even glance at the headlines: "You can read the news in a man's eyes."  From Movie Classic, 1933.

From The Film Daily, 1944.

From Film Daily, 1935.

Confession: we did indeed forget how folks love bubble grains.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1920.

"Let's all sing like the birdies sing."  From The Film Daily, 1934.

"Did you ever see a dictionary walking ... well we did!"  If there's a word for a walking dictionary, it'll be in Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

From The Film Daily, 1934.

From Startling Stories, 1948.

A: Because they might sound like Eddie Monsoon's lyrics in Absolutely Fabulous:

"Dead at his desk."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.

From The Film Daily, 1943.

"Looking younger every day!"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.

"The storm is coming!  You know how 'tis."  From The Film Daily, 1922.