Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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1919 QIEDITU5 nf BUHITUKE 145 MISS BEEBEE-ul thought every one at H. S. were perfect ladies and gentlemen until I came over. Emma Tinsley enters a music store. The clerk comes up. EMMA T.- Have you 'l:orgotten?' CLERK- You? EMMA T.- Oh, I don't want 'Youf I want 'Forgottenfn Continuing her journey to a meat shop she says to the butcher- Have you any brains? BUTCHER- Yes, ma'am, I wouldn't be here if I didn,t.', EMMA T.- I want a half pound, please. BUTCI-IER- But madam, they're not for sale. On entering a book store she says: Have you any of Lamb's Tales? CLERK- This is not the fur department. MR. PARSONS fin S. l-lj- The only difference in the new schedule is a complete change! I I MR. PARSONS fin Chapel?- We will now sing 'Till We Meet Again'. CHARLES GLEAVES- I-low much have you cut my deportment this month?,' U MRS. SMITH- Oh, I didn't get a chance at it. By the time the other teachers finished with it, there wasn't any left for me to cut. MR. LAYMAN, after calling Carter Sonn's name, remarked: That's the first time I ever heard of any one being both a son and a daughterf' MISS CURE- What is a conductor? PARROCK- A nickel grabberf' MR. VIAUD- Miss Coleman. where do you live? Cin French? THURNA- I live on Jefferson Street. MR. VIAUD- Oh! So you live on the streets? PUPIL- Is studying working? TEACHER- Yes.,' -PUPIL- But nothing is moving. ' TEACHER- Yes, but ignorance is moved away and knowledge is sub- stitute .

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l 1 44 512017115 Df 130311032 1919 JQKES Science Class: MRS. SMITH- What is the highest form of animal life? CHARLIE GLEAVES-GLA giraffe I Having basket-ball pictures taken for Annual: MR. COLE- I want all you girls now to look happy but Miss Cleaves, I want you to have a 'Teny' smile. MISS H.- What does 'courted death' mean? BUS REID- Flirting with Qakeyln WILLIE HAYES- Who, Lucy? Virginia Wiltsee was absent: MR. MCDONALD- Bus, why is Miss Wiltsee absent? Miss Hayward, doing police duty in Study l-lall: BRIGHT SENIOR-- Miss Hayward may I get Mr. Phelps in your place? MR. PARSONS- I can switch the teachers around to suit myself. SARAH ROBERTSON fto Elizabeth Hill,- I wish he'd' switch the teachers around to suit the pupils. MR. MCDONALD- Why do you keep a film in the dark? VIRGINIA BLOXTON- So it won't get in the light. MR. MCDONALD- Why do we pour water on fire? JOHN CURE- Because it's wet. MRS. SMITH farranging her rollj- Are there any P's in here? Yes'm. Price, Profit. Any Gaines? During the Flu epidemic children were excluded from the theatre. A young fellow took Judith ,lunkin to the Roanoke and when he went to buy the tickets, the ticket seller asked, l-low old is the little child with you?

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145 91502115 Df IBIJEIIIUKB 1919 In French class: MR. VIAUD- Bonjour, Monsieur! SURFACE- Bonj our, Mademoiselle l CAR. H.- What is that pin you have on? V LIZ. H.- Oh, it is a memory pin. CAR. H. fignorantlyl-- I never had heard that you were dead. GEORGE PETERS- I wish I was rich. IRVING OVERSTREET- So do I. Say, George, let's get rich together. MRS. CREIGI-ITON fto a lady friend,- William is getting to be quite a man now. His father let him have the front door key the other night and he stayed out until 8:30. MR. MCDONALD- I-larry, can you come to class the 7th period instead of the 6th? HARRY- No, Sir. MR. MCDONALD- Miss Kerr you will be able to come, will you not? MABEL- Yes, Sir. HARRY- Say, Mr. McDonald, I forgotg I'll be theref, LUCILLE GARRETTe Virginia, why are you interlacing that twine about your fingers ? VIRGINIA WILTSEE1i'Oh, nothing, just putting barbed wire around No Man's Land. MISS CURE fin Physics class?- Give us an example of rays. P. MORGAN- Cabarets. JOHN CURE, in Shakespeare class after having taken hold of a young lady's hand, exclaims, Oh, l've forgotten where I was now. When a girl entered the room with her eyes cast up, Bill Williamson was heard to say: What part of heaven did you come from ? MARY DOUGLAS fin Shakespeare class,- Rosalind fled to the Garden of Eden. TEACHER- I'm tempted to give this class a written lesson. KITTY COLE- Well, yield not to temptation.