Laugh... and the world

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Creator

compiled by Addy B. Sitoy

Language

English

Year

1955

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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To find myself in peace in tribulation by the lake with Li Pai drinking to the moon or pour with Omar Khayyam sway to the chant to Osiris (3rd mil. B.C.) lost in the theatre of Dionysus listen to Kung-fu-tze disagree with the Oracle the Great Pyramid smell the sweat of laboring slaves crimson the burning of Rome the darkness of silence Beethoven's Eroica city of David walk its eternal streets silence a new era Judea the world this universe rise and fall of civilizations the night the day the glory the years the moment (this moment) of all humanity all ages Within the library. I augh . . . and tlie world • • • compiled by addy b. sitoy A doctor in a clinic was interviewing a new patient. "If I find an operation necessary," he asked, "would you have the money to pay for it?" "Listen, Doc," replied the man, "if I didn't have the money, would you find the operation necessary?" lor one t A correspondent called the Soviet Embassy in London to check a report. A woman answered the telephone. "He isn't here," she said. "Who isn't there?” asked the correspondent. "Whom did you want to talk to?" asked the woman. ------United Press Wife to husband: "I'm going to do some shopping. I'll be back in about twenty dollars!" ------Publishers Syndicate In Hartford, Conn., a public works laborer was filling out a job questionnaire. To the question, "Who is your immediate supervisor?" he jotted down, "My wife." ------United Press The employment clerk, checking over the applicant's papers, was amazed to note the figures 107 and I I I in the spaces reserved for "Age of Father, if living" and "Age of Mother, if living." "Are your parents that old?" asked the surprised clerk. "Nope," was the answer, "but they would be if living." ------Coronet In the Bronx, Acting Capt. John Cronin, head of the Missing Persons Bureau, hunted for his two children, found them hiding in a cemetery. "We wanted to see how good you were," explained I I-year old Alice. In a Manhattan park, a cop found Ahmed Hassen asleep in a tree. Hassen explained that he slept in trees because sleeping on benches was forbidden. ------Time Moss Hart tells about the time he caught a little boy up an apple tree on his farm. The lad said: "One of your apples fell off and I was trying to put it back." I * —Reader's Digest AUGUST, 1955 Pa g e 15

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