Bancroft School - Blue Moon Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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98 THE BLUE MOON Fuzzy fin Englishj : It's just the same old plot-a boy falling in love with his stepmother's son. Junior Sherer: My exams for Brooks have come, Miss Lewis, and you needn't worry about my work any more. They want to find out what I don't know-not what I do know. Henshaw Dewey: Robert Schumann was born in Germany in 1810, when he was nine years old. LAUGHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Miss Clark: Barbara, what do you know about the Washington Con- ference? Buzzy: They er- um- embalmed the battleshipsf' Miss Clark: Where did the farmers have their distilleries? Ruth Brown: In their back yards. Miss Clark: 'iAfter the Civil War the South was a pretty black propo- sitionf' Miss Clark: Of what value to the United States was the annexation of the island of Guam? B. Pierpont: That's where Guama jelly comes from. Miss Clark: La Follette was a remarkable person. He was greatly in- terested in Shakespeare. Fuzzy: Can't we sell him a ticket to the play? Barbara: What do you think of industry? Faith: Too much work. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Miss Groff: A little blanker expression on that line, June. V. Loud: You can do that all right, June. Fuzzy: Shall I sit down now? Miss Groif: VN'here are you? Fuzzy: 'At hell's gate--!' Miss Lewis: The position of your right arm is wrong in that embrace. Betty Wood: Well, I'm left-handed.

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THE BLUE MOON 99 NBY THEIR WORDS . . .' Miss Fisher: What I mean is-. Miss Lewis: Hm-m? Miss Smith: That's spectacular, isn't it? Miss Estee: Where is your French ear? Mrs, Post: At Radcliffe, Winnie says,- Miss Clark: All right. Miss Weeks: That's corking! Miss Jones: That's plain speaking and I mean it. Mr. Demoorjian: Now, my young lady. . . . 1 Can you imagine French class without arguments about construction, with reference to the dictionary? without anyone's asking what time it is? I without being asked How many of you take Latin? or What comes after demander and regara'er.? Without a mistranslation of Mon Dieu? What would happen in science class- If Miss Smith's pet experiment really worked? If there were not a discussion of Virginia Loud's diet? If everyone enjoyed cutting up things? If the motherly eye were not kept on the goldfish? THINGS TO BE EMBALMED Giggles Knitting Thayer's bow. Stray clothing June's chloroform Tickets to sell Gabriel! Woman! and Mercy Goodness! YOUTHFUL WIT Miss Hyde: Children, do you remember any jokes that we've had in the room this year, or anything funny that's happened? Kitty Sigourney: Yes, don't you remember when I said to you, 'Aren't you ever going to warm up to me?' Miss Denison: 'iDoes anyone in this room know what criticise means? Second Grader: I do: it's when the minister sprinkles water on the baby's head and he gets a name.