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Nile Kinnick correspondence, 1935-1938

1936-05-26: Page 02

your response to my letter of a week or so ago. Father got a few back numbers of the Cocklebur and I was able to find a few appropriate jokes.
Here is a crack that went over pretty good and that you will appreciate. (From the standpt of the reference to the New Deal).
In referring to a boy who is known for his drinking I stated that he was now a reformed man. And that this all came about thru attendance in Chemistry class. The teacher said alcohol was C2H5OH and the boy being a radical anti-New Deal refuses to have anything to do with anymore alphabetical regimentation.
Another: Voltaire, that great French philosopher, says that whiskers are like ideas - - women don't have them.
Again: A minister & a banker were having a hotly contested round of golf. The minister had the hard luck to lose by one stroke on the eighteenth hole. He didn't take his defeat very graciously and bemoaned his luck lustily. The banker, of course being in the best of spirits, tried to console him. Saying, don't take it so hard old boy, we can't always win. Why, he said, John you'll probably live to bury me. Yes, sadly replied the minister but it would still be your hole.

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your response to my letter of a week or so ago. Father got a few back numbers of the Cocklebur and I was able to find a few appropriate jokes. Here is a crack that went over pretty good and that you will appreciate. (From the standpt of the reference to the New Deal). In referring to a boy who is known for his drinking I stated that he was now a reformed man. And that this all came about thru attendance in Chemistry class. The teacher said alcohol was C2H5OH and the boy being a radical anti-New Deal refuses to have anything to do with anymore alphabetical regimentation. Another: Voltaire, that great French philosopher, says that whiskers are like ideas - - women don't have them. Again: A minister & a banker were having a hotly contested round of golf. The minister had the hard luck to lose by one stroke on the eighteenth hole. He didn't take his defeat very graciously and bemoaned his luck lustily. The banker, of course being in the best of spirits, tried to console him. Saying, don't take it so hard old boy, we can't always win. Why, he said, John you'll probably live to bury me. Yes, sadly replied the minister but it would still be your hole.