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  1. Words Fall.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 28 November 1918 Edition: MORNING. p 6 Article
    ... Words Fall. Gus: I don't see anything funny in these Christmas wheezes about wifey's cigars. Gusty: Married? Gus: No. Gusty: Do you smoke? Gus: No. (Heavy silence.) ... 27 words
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.317)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.317)

  2. WISE WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 10 August 1916 p 5 Article
    ... WISE WORDS. There is an American writer called Luke McLuke, who seems to have slipped into the shoes of the late lamented mented Josh Billings. Here is "some" sense from Luke: "The Young Mlan will invite Her to go to the theatre, and after the thea tre he will take her to a swell place for lunch ... 188 words
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.316)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.316)

  3. PEOPLE WHO COIN WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 7 March 1918 Edition: MORNING. p 5 Article
    ... PEOPLE WHO COIN WORDS. Words and phrases, often spoken or written in jest, sometimes "catch on" to such an extent that they become come recognised parts of the lan guage. Dickens enriched his mother ... novelist and humorist, has created the word "Suburbia," and is :pardonably -proud of-the frequency with ... 118 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.253)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.253)

  4. WORDS YOU'VE ALWAYS NEEDED.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 19 April 1917 p 6 Article
    ... WORDS YOU'VE ALWAYS. NEEDED. RAWP, n. 1. A reliably-unreliable person. 2. One who -means well. 3. A kind of husband. " RAW-PUS, a. 1. Dilatory. 2. Semi efficient The rawp can be absolutely depend-' ed upon to forget to bring "that book" he borrowed and that now you need. Unreliable? Oh, you 'can ... 1196 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.252)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.252)

  5. Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 4 July 1918 Edition: MORNING. p 5 Article
    ... Actions Speak Louder Than Words. The story tells of an old woman who thus addressed her vicar on his resigning signing his post: . 9 "So ye guan to leave us; pas sun?" .: "Yes, Sarah," he replied. "You see, I'm getting on in-years, and my voice is now so weak they cannot hear me at the other end ... 109 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.221)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.221)

  6. WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Wednesday 16 April 1913 p 2 Article
    ... WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS. Fable. - Your explanation upon reaching home at 3 a.m. Face.-Something that prevents a good many of us from being hand some. Falry. -Almost any pretty girl buy fore you become acquainted with he.. Family.-Something that keeps you hustling. Father.-The party who pays the ... 175 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.221)

  7. LAST WORDS OF MIRABEAU.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Wednesday 3 July 1912 p 4 Article
    ... LAST WORDS OF MIRABEAU. Mirabeau, though a member of the old nobility of France, espoused the popular cause when the storm of the French Revolution broke. To his pas. sionate, impetuous nature it did,;not,.. appear n mposslble to u retdfinf'the'mon' archy whilst dealing a death-blow to despotism. ... 300 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.221)

  8. FLYING MEN'S FUNNY FADS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 10 June 1920 Edition: MORNING. p 3 Article
    ... FLYING MEN'S FUNNY FADS. "I hate having my lunch in the air; it's such hard work eating when you ... do have lnneu while flying will probably come as a surprise to a good many people. They frequently ... Another queer thing-and thissis by no means confined to only one or two flying men-is that the wearing of ... 238 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.2)

  9. GREAT THOUGHTS IN FEW WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 17 February 1916 p 5 Article
    ... GREAT THOUGHTS IN FEW Doyle. Wars must be ended by civilisation, tion, or the future will end civilisation itself.-Mr. itself.-Mr. J. L. Garvin. We shall have to put our elbow grease into the war if we are going to win promptly.-Lord Rosebery. There is no room for the man who. "downs tools" to-day ... 82 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.19)

  10. YEA POLICE COURT. USING INSULTING WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 29 September 1910 p 3 Article
    ... YEA POLICE COURT. USING INSULTING WORDS. Mounted Coastable Fenton was the complainant in a case at ... Homewood, for using insulting words towards him. The police mag. istrate, Mr R. Knight, and Mr T. S; ... words on 17 It July. Mr Fynn-The cause of the trouble is they thought in their minds that you were ... 664 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.19)

  11. GREAT THOUGHTS IN A FEW WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 17 August 1916 p 5 Article
    ... GREAT THOUGHTS IN A FEW Doyle. Human liberty is the greatest thing in life, and it's for that we are fighting.-Sir ing.-Sir Samuel Hughes. At the Front, when we wish to be abusive without being libellous, we call each other "politicians."-Earl Stanhope. War has been robbed of all its glory and ... 161 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.19)

  12. WORDS OF WIT AND WISDOM.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 30 April 1914 p 6 Article
    ... WORDS OF WIT AND WISDOM. Be good, but also be good for something. thing. It usually costs a man something in listen to flattery. Life is not all nigh andl conflict: morning breaks at last. Know your mlan lbfore yolu let l;; opinions 'weigh nluch. Singleness of purpose is not tie same thing as ... 248 words
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  13. How to Pronounce Certain Words.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 18 January 1900 Edition: Morning p 3 Article
    ... How to Pronounce Certain Words. Neighborhood-Nay-bur-hood. Odorous-O-dur-us, not od-ur-us. Organization- Or-gan-e-za-shun, not or-ga-ni-za-shan. Partisan-Par-te-zan, not par-te-zan~ nor par-i-zan. Physiognomy-As spelled, not phys lonnomy. Precedent (an example)-Press-o-dent; prie-ce-dent is the ... 58 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.19)

  14. Good Words For the Mule.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 30 June 1898 Edition: Morning p 3 Article
    ... Good Words For the Mule. A South Carolinian in a letter to Practical Farmer sums up the more characteristic qualities of the mule. He says: A mule becomes attached to his own er and his surroundings, even though the one is cruel and hard and the other not conducive to comfort He preferred hardship ... 359 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

  15. Good Words For the Mule.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 29 December 1898 Edition: Morning p 4 Article
    ... Good Words For the Mule. ' A South Carolinian in a letter to Practical Farmer sums up. the more characteristic qualities of the mule. He says: A male becomes attached to his own er and his surroundings, even though the one is cruel and hard and the other not conducive to comfort. He preferred ... 353 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

  16. A Few Words of Warning.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 29 December 1892 p 2 Article
    ... A Few Words of Warning. OUR Seymour friends are forming a Dairy Company. That the project is a good one and well calculated to advance the interests of the district we are in a position to aver iremarks the Kilmore Free Press). From the experience gained in connection with the working of our local ... 401 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

  17. Big Words and Long Steps.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 14 March 1918 Edition: MORNING. p 5 Article
    ... Big Words and Long Steps. A worthy professor once escorted a number of boys to the Zoo, in order them natural history, as he maintained that this was a study greatly neglected by the middle classes, who catalogued Nature with Dickens' Mrs. Harris. So the benevolent soul took his con tingent to see ... 364 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

  18. A FEW WORDS TO FARMERS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 1 June 1893 p 3 Article
    ... A FEW WORDS TO FARMERS. APERS. (BY J. CHRISTENSEN, MANAGER YEA DAIRY FACTORY.) THE prices realised both in the Melbourne bourne and London markets for butter made at the Yea Dairy Factory tells its own tale as to the quality of the article manufactured. But I am sorry to say that the supply of ... 541 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.189)

  19. "ORIEL" ON FLYING MACHINES.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 12 August 1909 p 3 Article
    ... '"ORIEL" ON FLYING MACHINES. It is safe to prophesy that in 1:1 a few years flying machines mr'lchins will be as plentiful ful in Melbourne as motor-cares. Then we shall see items such as the following in the daily pipers: A sad accident occurred in tile oisy lst night, whe in an aeroplane, i4f ... 298 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.175)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.175)

  20. THEATRE OF FUTURE DOOM OF SPOKEN WORDS.
    Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920) Thursday 5 March 1914 p 6 Article
    ... THEATRE OF FUTURE DOOM OF SPOKEN WORDS. Even those who do not agree with M. Leon Bakst's theories ... spoken word," he be gan. - "The spoken' word will find I another and a more modernist arena.. The book, ... listen, only end in failure. No one wishes to listen to the spoken word unless it be at a lecture or ... 839 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.158)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.158)