Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Miss McDermott: Miss Giles, stop talking, Pm presiding!—Eng. E 5b. Webster (scuffing all the way back to his seat.) Miss Coombs: Webster Gleason, go back to the waste basket and pick up your feet and walk. Dennison: I hear you are trying to aim high this year, Harry. Damon: Yes, Pve succeeded; I broke a light last time I aimed. Newell: How do you feel to-day? Spratt: Like a loaf of bread. Newell: How’s that: Spratt: Tip-Top. Miss Twombley: Who was at the bat- tle of Troy? Bright Senior: Napoleon. Miss Bruce (after reading a passage in Spanish): Is that verb form right? Miss Zeller: Yes, what makes you think it isn’t? Miss Bruce: Well, all the class is laughing at it. Miss Zeller: It might not be the verb they are laughing at. Rhodes (translating a passage in Span- ish) : “It was a glorious day. The moon and stars shone brightly.” Class discussing prices in Junior book- keeping—Miss Horrigan: Shall we change our beans? Miss Burns: It might not be a bad idea! Mr. Dawson: What are the Alien Se- dition Acts, Miss—er-er, well (Mr.) Pier- son. That’s an old one, class, don’t laugh. Pierson: I don’t know. Walsh: That’s an old one, too. Miss Flagg: Olsen, what is made from petroleum? Olsen: Millionaires. i Miss Wiley: Lead is the only thing that radium positively will not affect, and it affects that a little. Pitts: Why so gloomy, Drew? Drew: Oh, I went to see a show the other night and the ticket seller played a mean trick on me. Pitts: How so? Drew—Well, she asked me if I cared what nationality I sat behind, and I said, Of course not. Pitts: Well? Drew: So she put me in back of a Pole. Pupil in English: I think that theme was very well written up. Miss Giles: Written down, if you please! We all noticed that the football picture was in the Joke Section of the last Golden Rod. Miss Douglas: We will have all girls read this act. Joseph B----you read the first soldier. Miss Thompson: Here, Widlin, come up the stairs in two files please. L.E.F.: What is the commonest use of calcium carbonate (marble)? Johnson: Why, it is used to make gravestones. Miss Galleher: You can come to me any time for help. Ford: Where are you Saturdays and Sundays?

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28 THE GOLDEN-ROD Dodge: If you get killed by an auto- mobile you’re dead. Not if you “Dodge” it. T.: Turn to Stevenson’s appendix and we’ll see how much we can cover. (All in a nut shell.) Freshie, entering restaurant: Do you serve lobsters here? Waiter: Yes, sit down! We serve any- body. Miss Colclough: Jocelyn, stop stamp- ing your feet, I can easily keep you after school, you know. Jocelyn: You’ll have to “hold me.” Miss M.: Mr. Springer, can I read the “Making of an American”? (No an- swer.) Miss M.: Can I? It’s a corker, I mean it’s peachy. (Icy stare from Mrs. S.) Miss M.: I mean, it’s swell. (That’s a freshman.) My wife has gone to the West Indies to spend a few weeks. Is that so? Jamaica? Nope, she went of her own accord.— Lampoon. Wanted—Experienced general house- work girl not under thirty or forty years of age.—Quincy Ledger. Miss B.: What is the equator? Miss Sherman: It’s an imaginary line running around the earth. Voice: What’s its speed. It was a freak day and a certain young lady who had a tremendously large bow on her hair had just said, “I don’t know.” Whereupon the teacher replied, “I think it would be just as well to have some- thing inside our heads!” Weil (in English class): Washington Irving was always a bachelor because his wife died before he was married. The Secret of the Well Dressed Young Man is not the size of his ward- robe, but the care he gives it. Frequent cleaning and press- ing will keep your clothes fresh and new, in fact, it is real economy. Have our solicitor call at your home or office. Wayne Belding, Joke Editor.