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Show jisure been cold lately. Nowadays the excitement (if any) at noon goes on in the auditorium. audi-torium. Those sunny days out on the front lawn are gone for the winter. Now you reserve a chair and stay put for a while. Someone suggested a matinee dance. You know what a matinee dance is don't you? Its the time when you sit around and listen to records while someone wanders around heckling you for not dancing They remind me of the old Social Dancing Danc-ing Days. Ah yes! We used to march around until you got the person we would least "like to dance with, then we'd - stop and suffer through a dance. After that the ones who were satisfied stood up and the others, raced to their seats and the president of the United Sates couldn't have made them go through it again. They used to play "There's Glue on the Saddle" and "Red Silk Stockings", and the "Green Perfume" Per-fume" until it was unbearable. They tell me the Junior High still goes on with the tradition. More power to them! The only shoes I ever danced through were my partners,!, ! ! I remember hearing a boy say to another about a certain girl, "She's just like pushing a boat around!" I felt sorry for her till I heard the rush of feet while every boy in the class made a mad dash to dance with her. "What's sjie got that I haven't got twenty pounds more of?" I heard one wallflower moan. Evidently she didn't know that a preposition is the wrong word to end a sentence with. OVERHEARD: one girl to another, an-other, "Who should I go out with this week? The Cadillac or the Lincoln?" And a new definition to one of my favorite words . . Savior faire. This, person calls it the ability to smile when you suddenly discover that your best pal and your girl are both missing from the dance floor. Ah what a situation. Well now that the strikes over, things might get a little better. People will get their jobs back . . . things in the store will be sold and everybody will tie happy, also I might get that super-delux dress I saw in the window the other day. Jus.t wait, as soon as I hand this in to be published a hotel will burn down and something exciting excit-ing will happen and I won't be able to write about it. That's life. Till Next Thursday Impv : Monday we were honored by a visit from Ab Jenkins. They planned plan-ned to have a motion picture but it didn't pan out. They were quite pleased at our good manners. I think we were more surprised than they were. We took a good look at the racing car and scooted back into the building to get warm. Its Pardon My Horns! News Of Interest To Red Devils When you read this, being out of school and all, you might think you have a surprise in store. Well to tell the truth (and I always do ... ) nothing very surprising has happened. No one has run off and married, yours truly hasn't been sat on a fountain for a week, and aside from report cards and last minute tes.ts everything has run along smoothly. Dad has been watching the Hit parade anxiously, hoping for a decline de-cline in the "Lucky Old Sun" popularity pop-ularity I'd hate to see him and Frankie Laine meet face to face. Brother, would that be a dynamite reaction. He ets so sick of hearing hear-ing it I have to move ever so often. That latest thing in Teacher's, Bag of Tricks is the little custom of having the students estimate their own marks. We took them around to all the classes and sat there waiting for the verdict. Last Friday the American Legion Le-gion sponsored an assembly with a talk by Mays Anderson. It was fascinating to us to hear but it was a horrible experience (for him I mean) really. -In war that happens hap-pens to so many it seems awful that people are actually looking forward to another war. The American Am-erican History classes sent some girls with talks to some of the women's clubs. Karen Alleman and Carol Anne Sumfaon discussed some of the world problems today. They gave interesting comments on both sides of the problem. |