Central High School - Cosmos Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Miss Howard: “What was the time of Shakespeare’s Macbeth ?” Stage wisper from the rear: 1040. Seth Hathaway: “Twenty minutes of eleven.” Miss Coffman: ‘‘What are pauses?” Harvey Keller: “They grow on cats.” “Do you know a guv with one eve by the name of Jones?” “What’s the name of the other eye?” MOTHER GOOSE. MODERNIZED. Eittle Jack Horner, sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie, He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a rotten apple And said, who the he— baked this mess anyway ? Wife (finding hubby drunk) : “John, this is the last straw.” Hubby: “Thash all right, m ' dear, jesli gimme the bottle.” THE BEST PLACE TO HOLD THE WORLD’S FAIR: Around the waist. “Are you the man with the falsetto voice.” “No, with the false set of teeth.” “I think she is a nice girl.” I don’t like her either.” City Dude (to farmer) : “Milking?” Farmer (to city dude) : “Naw, just feeling her pulse.’’ Reagan Houston: “My girl got sore last night.” Tom Crowder: “What did you do?” R. H.: “I suggested we sit on a smooth¬ er rock.” T. H. Bass: “What would you do if you went riding three hours and didn’t get kissed ?” Ruth Potter: “I’d lie about it.” Harry McCormick: “Yes, I’m going t ' o masquerade as a monkey.” Margaret Ewing: “I see, trying to save the expense of renting- a costume. Herbert Edmundson: That guv wears Indian neckwear.” Nelson Wray : “How come?” H. E.: “Bow tie and Arrow collar. ODE TO THE CATERER: $42.50.

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The night before the exam in Trig Miss Thompson: “Reagan, did you ever fail to embrace an opportunity?” Reagan H.: “It depends on the form of opportunity, Miss Thompson.” Miss McLeod: “Name something that is extinct now.” Tom Harpole: “Holidays.” Norma S.: “You had no right to kiss me that way.” J. Tucker: “All right, I ' ll try it another way then.” Stephen Moncrief: “Did you ever take ether?” Winifred Spencer: “Who teaches it?” Harry McCormick : “What are you do¬ ing to that water” Mr. King: “Analyzing it.” H. M.: “What’s in it?” Mr. K.: “Two-thirds hydrogen and one- third oxygen.” H. M.: (very meekly): “And ain’t there any water in it at all?’’ Rudy Coles: “When I sing I get tear? in my eyes. What can I do for this?” Miss Coffman: “Stuff cotton in your ears.” Cecil Dodge: “What are you doing for a living now, Norma?” Norma Smith : “An insurance company is paying me fifty dollars a week not to wear a split skirt on streets where traffic is heavy.” Dad: “Is there anything worse than to be old and bent?” Ross Breymann: “Yes, to be young and broke. Joe Daniels:“ Do you care for horses?” Irwin Hill: “No, I wait on tables.” Coach of Jeffersonian Debating Club: “Have you ever done any public speak¬ ing?” Herbert Tinger: “Well, I proposed to a girl over the public telephone once.” Miss Weinberg: “When are mortgages usually paid off?” Attlea Hill: “In the last act. YE CENTRALITE STRIPED50CKS YELLOW SHOES nCAVY LINE— HELD TIES MOUSTACHES (IFP055IBIE) BLA5E! ' .! BLASE! ' .! BLASE!!!

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