West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Miss Clark: Parse the word kiss. Hazel Both: This word is a noun, but is usually used as a conjunction and more com- mon than proper. It is not very singular, in that it is usually in the plural. It agrees with me. - - Miss Powers: You act very foolish at times. Can ' t you get over it? R. Hart: I have tried, but my mother makes me sleep in a crazy quilt. Want Ad — Wanted, woman to wash, iron, and milk two cows. R. Hart: What is a zebra? A. Ardussi: A horse in a bathing suit. Did you ever hear a day break when night falls? No, but I ' ve seen a son beam when moon shines. C. Murry: They call my girl ' Spearmint ' . M. McGovern: Why? Is she Wriggly? C. M. : No, but she ' s always after meals. IS THAT SO? Paint and lipstick, now and then, are relish- ed by the best of men. R. Hart (with much enthusiasm) : I could go on dancing like this with you forever. Marie LeFleur: Oh, no, you couldn ' t possibly. You ' re bound to improve. Freshman Yell Rah! Rah! Ma! Ma! Pa! Pa! Help ! Miss Boyle: Now someone use the word ' ruthless ' in a sentence. J. Lovett: Every team in the American League except the Yankees is Ruthless. Mr. DeHaven: Well, my boy, do you know what ' Syntax ' means? Joe Needham: Yes sir, the duty on liquors. F. Cherry: My feet are going back on me. B, Slocum: Why don ' t you turn around and walk backwards? EXPERIENCE Is your beef tender today? asked the shopping sailor. Sir, replied the sentimental butcher, it is as tender as a woman ' s heart. Gimme a pound of sausage, ordered the sailor hastily. R. Hart: What ' s the matter, finances bothering you? J. Lewis: Yes, I ov e Dice five dollars, I ' ve got it and he knows I know he knows I ' ve got it. C. Vondette: Gladys is fearfully crude isn ' t she? H. Booth : I ' ll say so. She thinks Lotus Eaters are insects. ■ - A SECRET SORROW Maiden (in lower berth) : Sweet slumber, kiss my eyelids. H. Snyder (in upper) : Say, who is this guy, slumber? J. Benson: You better get a haircut. A. Navarro: Why, how so? J. Benson: Well, that ' s cheaper than buying a violin. Earl Shaler: I dreamed that I died last night. Cecil S.: What woke you up? E. Shaler: The heat. H. Ziegler: So Marietta gave up her position to go into the chorus? M. Littledale: Yes, she decided to kick for higher wages. I believe you ' re stringing me, said the convict as the executioner tied the knot under his chin. No, Flapper. Is Dorothy a good girl? Is she? Boy, she ' s so innocent she thinks Scott Fitzgerald ' s ' The Beautiful and the Damned, ' is a picture of a river. H. Meyer: Officer, a man just winked at me over there. Off icer: Well, do you know who the man is! H. Meyer: find out. ' No, that ' s what I ' m trying to THE FIRST FALL Eve ' s dropping, said Adama, as his wife fell out of the tree. Dr. Gregg : How is it that you spend your allowance so fast? Art G. : I ' m helping out these poor Eski- mos by buying their pies. ' F. Galarno: The Biblical story of the cre- ation must have been written by a baseball reporter. Silver Dersch: How so? Fritz G. : It starts out, ' In the big inning ' .

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They were enjoying a motor ride, and had just entered a country road. May I kiss your hand? he asked, a little confusedly. She removed her motor veil. No, she re- plied, I have my gloves on. Judge : Where did the automobile hit you? ' ' F. Galarno: Well, Judge, if I ' d been carrying a license number it would have busted into a thousand pieces. ' R. Hannum: Will that watch tell time? V. Schury: No, you have to look at it. So this is Paris? said the leg to the gar- ter. B. Staff ield : When I kissed her, she drew herself up in my arms as if taught. Hubert Ryan: I think she learned from some one else, too. Peach : Why do ladies make such good soldiers? Prune : Because they are accustomed to all sorts of arms. Fresh: How far are you in Economics? Junior: In the last stages of ' Consump- tion ' . Minister (warming up to sermon) : And turning to Jer. 4th what do we find? Everett W. (waking up) : Unprepared, sir. ' Well, of all the nerve, she said, slapping his face when he kissed her. Well then, he pouted, if that ' s the way you feel about it get off my lap. R. Smith (sentimentally) : I can see the love light shining in your face. L. Spence (emotionally): Heavens! Where ' s my powder puff? Why does a chicken lay an egg? Because if she drops it, it might break. T. Maynard: Isn ' t that Ruth Hannum with her face all enamelled up? B. Kessel : Certainly looks lacquer. Senior : Soph.: here. Aren ' t you Owen Jones? ' Lord, yes, I ' m owing everybody Fresh Male Flirt: Lend me your Ever- sharp, Miss Blue Eyes. She gave him a bit of her tongue. Any ice today lady? No, the baker just left a cake. Giddap. H. Trier: I laugh at everybody that laughs at me. W. Ardussi: You ' re never without a smile, eh? Leland Walker (in St. Charles) : we ' re in luck — steak today! Bert Ross: Tough luck! ' Ah, Drug Clerk : What kind of toothbrush do you want? Charles Johnson: Give me a big one, there ' s ten in my family. Burrows: Hey, don ' t shoot, your gun isn ' t loaded. Cherry: Can ' t help that, the bird won ' t wait. Nick Mangutz : If a rnan marries a widow by the name of Elizabeth, who has two children, what does he get? J. Benson: I give up. N. M.: A second hand Lizzie and two runabouts. They called the baby steamboat because they had to paddle it behind. I am certainly absorbing a lot of know- ledge, murmured the janitor as he erased the blackboard. Sweet Data, cried the Physics student, as he doped the experiment sheet. Sir, your wife just died. Why tell me about it? Call up the under- taker. Yes, Marietta, my description of a mean man is one who takes his girl on a joy-ride, pr omises not to kiss her then keeps his promise. M. Hinkley (who had just received a beau- tiful set of mink furs) : I don ' t see how such wonderful furs can come from such a low, sneaking beast. Father: I don ' t ask for thanks but I do insist on respect. Miss Boyle: Why is English called the mother tongue? J. Lovett: Because fathers never have a chance to use it. NOTICE Sophomores, please do not leave your tri- cycles and kiddie cars in the hall, as they might interfere with the upper classmen get- ting to their classes. Mr. Dersch : Why didn ' t you filter this? Freddie Bliss: I didn ' t think it would stand the strain.

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Stu.: Have you seen Theopholus? Pid : Yes, Theopholus show I ever saw. V. Schury: Where is that frat everyone is tallying about? K. Schurr: What new frat? V. S. : Why haven ' t you heard? Eska Mo Pi? Miss Kilbourne: What is a mummy? B. Smith : A mummy is — a mummy is — a mummy is a poppy ' s wife. Poor: What did her father say when he heard you remark about his funny ' feet? Fish: He poked fun at me. 24 I ' ve been trying to think of a word for two weeks. 23 How about fortnight? Never run after a street car or a woman ! There ' ll be another along in a few minutes and remember there aren ' t so many after midnight but they ' re faster. Her: I don ' t believe we saw the original take off of the seven veils at all. Him: Of course not, but wasn ' t it a good take oir? M. Riens: Can you drive with one hand? Flip K. (eagerly) You bet I can. Bobby (sweetly) Then won ' t you please pick up my handkerchief from the floor? Mary Hart: Stop this instant or I ' ll get out and walk. H. Doering: But Mary. M. H.: Aren ' t you ashamed of yourself and after I ' ve known you so long too. H. D.: But— Mary: You needn ' t explain, you ' re not a gentleman. H. D. : But Mary, this darned horse won ' t go unless I whip him. W. W. (in history) : In how many v ars was the United States engaged ' ' F. Pitts: Five. W. Haggard: Enumerate them. F. Pitts: One, two, three, four, five. L. Eynon: Every time she smiles it re- mmds me of a Pullman car at eight o ' clock in the evening, E. Harris: Howsat? L. Eynon: No lowers and very few uppers. 1925 : Why do the upper classmen always refer to the girls as peaches? 1923: The more you handle them the mushier they get. C. McDonald: Lock the door before you go out. M. McDonaJld: How ' ll I go out then? C. McDonald: Go in before you go out and unlock it from the outside, so we can get in if we ' re locked out. R. Burrows: That snappy fellow you just danced with is in my class. B. Bauer: You flatter yourself. Al. Comstock: Going to have dinner any- where tonight? Mary Hinkley (eagerly) : Why no, not that I know of. AI. C: Gee, you ' ll be awfully hungry by morning. MOIST CURIOSITY First Gossip : The preacher said there were fourteen cases of flu in church this morning. Second Gossip (wife of bootlegger) And how many be there in a case? B. Ross: I ' ve just finished a hair-raising book. J. Schmiegel: What is it called? B. Ross: Aid to the Bald-Headed Men. A WET ONE What is your idea of the tightest man in school? The guy who won ' t take a shower bath because they soak you too much. LeRoy Rankin: A mouse crawled into my laundry and died. C. Johnson : That ' s probablv whv he died. A NO? Odessa: Odessa little bit more. Lena: Lena little closer. Hiawatha : Hiawatha nithe girl before I met you. ' Runt: At the follies the other night my eyes felt like little birds. Dime: How come? Runt: Flitting from limb to limb m ' deah boy. W. Ardussi: First I kissed her on the nose, then on the chin, and between the two I had a wonderfully fine time. D. Brock (desperately) : Will you love me always? Hugh Bloomfield: Why honey, I ' ve loved you all the ways I know, He: Woman is the loveliest in her thir- ties. She: Thanks — I mean, do you think so?