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Lover Boy

Song · The Night Shift shorts · November 20, 1947 · 23 min · 3,486 words

The transcript of “Lover Boy”, an episode of The Night Shift shorts first broadcast November 20, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Night Shift plays The Night Shift shorts free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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and that the whole drama of life is written in the sales of time. We present a new series of radio programs, the clock. The passage of time and the flow of a trend of civilization have both had a profound influence in changing man from a polygamous animal to one who practices mononomy.

In the reign of Solomon the King, a thousand wives was the custom. Today one wife, or at least one wife at a time, is the prevailing passion. But there are still some members of the species homo sapiens who are low to accept their monogamous status.

I'm not referring to the big ones to see it in my view. As a matter of fact, the gentleman of whom I speak rarely marries all. But they have a list of conquests to their credit that would put a salt in the shame, and they seem to forget the fact that one woman can be more than enough, or any man to handle.

I know, Carla Rad. I think you'll never see my purse in a subway poster when you hang it from the strep. That's why I can't figure the reason they go for me in such a great big way.

I'm talking about women. Fat women, thin women, blondes and brunettes. They all make a grab for Alex. They can't be the way I talk. My education don't amount to much and I'm a little rough around the edges.

But my bill wouldn't win no prizes in a models magazine. So maybe it's my face. Yeah, maybe it's the way I smile and look them in the eye to make some gulp like flowers and booze right into my arms.

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