The Professor Loses His Job
My Friend Irma · September 27, 1948 · 29 min · 4,101 words
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For the safety of your smile use pepidin twice a day see your dentist twice a year Lever Brothers company presents the pepidin show my friend Irma Created by Cy Howard and starring Marie Wilson as Irma with Joan Banks as Jane Friendship, friendship, just the perfect friendship.
When other friendships have been forgotten, theirs will still be hot. In an article that said the Earth rotates on its axis at a speed of over a thousand miles an hour.
At this rate of speed, you wonder what keeps the whole world from getting dizzy. Well, scientists explain that due to the law of gravity, this spinning has no effect on us at all. I've got news for you.
These scientists have never met my friend Irma. Believe me, she's been slightly like the law was repealed. But knowing all this, I still can't help loving her. I admit there are times when she's quite exasperating, like the time when, well the other night for instance, I was reading the newspaper and I said, Irma, yes Jane, look at this headline,
United States expects record bumper crop in 1948. Isn't that wonderful? Well, I don't think so. What good are all those bumbers if we can't get cars? Well, that's the way it is all day long. But there's one consolation the days are getting shorter.
Jane? Yes, sweetie. It's been weeks now since you've seen Richard. Do you miss him? Who? Or Richard Rhineland, or the fellow you used to go with? Do you miss him? Richard? Why? I never even think of him. He was just a chapter in my life.
Oh, Jane, you're not fooling me. I know you still love him. Irma, that's ridiculous. I never give him a thought. Well, then, who's the other Richard? Other Richard? Yes, you know, the one you keep talking about in your sleep?
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