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

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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?

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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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F. Shimmers: Hawaii? J. Lewis: I Hayti teli you. ' C. Currott: Au Guam. Chapel Orator: Ladies and gentlemen, the Scriptures tells us that riches are a curse. Hard Soph: Well I ' ll be damned. M. Theobald: Can you read lips? C. Norton: Yes, by the touch system. H. Clafflin: Do you love children. V. Day: No, but you don ' t look so young. You say you get music offa them rigs, queried Silas Silo, as he gazed aloft at the radio outlay. Yes sir, smiled J. Benson, is there any- thing about the apparatus you would like explained? Yes, just how in thunder do you get a feller away up there so he can ply on them fool things? That physics teacher has not smiled for several years now. He is one teacher who practices what he teaches. He believes in the Law of Gravity. Hugh Blomfield: How did you come to tear your stocking? D. Brock: I did not come to tear my stocking, I came for a walk. H. Snyder: Please give me justice. E. Appleby: I can ' t. H. Snyder: Why? E. Appleby: It ' s Lent. H. Snyder: When will you get it back? Don ' t cry, little boy, you ' ll get your re- ward in the end. S ' pose so, that ' s where I alius do get it. Thelma Goodman: I think the long skirts are so graceful. V. Griffith: Yes, I ' m knock-kneed, too. Mr. Haggard (in History class) : Yes, some of our greatest men in history had red hair. Bill. D.: Is that so? Beggar: Kind sir, will you give me a dime for a bed? M. MacDonald: Lets ' see the bed first. A city and a chorus girl Are much alike ' tis true ; A city ' s built with outskirts, A chorus girl is too. Laverne Eynon : Do you see that man over there? H. Ryan: Nope, I can ' t see him. L. E. : I don ' t see why not, he ' s in perfectly full view. H. R. : I know it, but I ' m not looking at him. Mother: Don ' t ask so many questions, child, curiosity killed the cat. Willie: What did the cat want to know, mama? Lotta: Don ' t you love a night like this? Nerve: G ' wan! Tease me and I will. J. Cronk: What character do you have in the next act? J. Stanton: I ' m not supposed to have any character, I ' m in the chorus. -•.-• Kissing a girl just because you think she wants you to is like scratching a place that doesn ' t itch. C. Murry: This tunnel cost millions of dollars. Edna Alderton : An entire waste of money money as far as you ' re concerned, isn ' t it? June Bride : I would like to buy an easy chair for my husband. Salesman: Morris? June Bride : No, Clarence. Pinky: I hit a guy in the nose yesterday and you should have seen him run. Scheib: That so? Pinkey: Yeh, but he didn ' t catch me. J. Benson: Ever study a blotter? Helen Meyer: No, Foolish. J. Benson : Very absorbing thing. Hubert Ryan: I took that pretty girl from the store home the other night and stole a kiss b . staff eld: What did she say? Hubert R. : Will that be all? Johnny, I ' m afraid I ' ll not see you in Heaven. said the father to his errant son. Why, what have you been doing now pop?