August 18, 2025 • 26 mins
A sitcom following the life of a witty high school English teacher and her students, balancing educational chaos with clever humor. It’s beloved for its sharp writing and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, enjoyed
her vacation during the holiday is just as much as
any other teacher, but as it drew to a close,
she had a peculiar reaction.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Although I felt that my vacation had done me a
lot of good, now that it was over, I was
keed up and enthusiastic, simply raring to go, raring to
go on another two weeks vacation. Meanwhile, I went about
the business of getting used to working again, and spent
the past week noticing conditions which hadn't seemed so deplorable
during the hustle and bustle of holiday time at the school.
(00:36):
I was telling my landlady, Missus Davis, about them while
we were having breakfast Friday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Let me pull you a cup of this coffee, Connie.
It's real DJ gen Niro style.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I just got the recipe, real Degennio style.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yes, I mashed up a few brazil nuts and mixed
them with the coffee ground. That's one reason why the
blonde hair of a brazil is so outstanding.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Missus Davis. Very few Brazilians have blonde hair.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That's another reason it's so outstanding. But I'm afraid I've
interrupted something you started to say to me.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Connie.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, it wasn't very important. I had just said, I.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Really shouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
It's a habit I've picked up from my brother Victor.
He's terribly absent minded.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I thought your sister Angela was the absent minded one
in the family. Angela, Yes, that's what you told me.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What did I tell.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You that she was very absent minded? Who your brother Victor?
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
How did you know that? You never even met Victor?
But he is confused sometimes, poor dear. Why you could
be talking about something to Victor and he'd seem as
interested as could be in the conversation. But then if
you just looked away for a moment, it could be
right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Of a sentence that yes, missus David, missus Davis. You ooo,
miss David.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Open morning, Connie. I was just looking for the cat
out in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
She hadn't touched her milk.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What do you hear from Victor pictures?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
My brother, Oh he's fine, thank you, dear. He called
me quite regularly. My sister Angela is the one that
worries me. She's the absent minded member of the family.
But I keep feeling that I disrupted your train of thought,
did I, Connie?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's not a car left on the tracks but the kaboos.
I was merely telling you, Missus Davis, that I never
realized how bad conditions were at school until this Cole's
fell set in. My classroom is so drafted that half
my pupils can't answer questions because their teeth are chattering.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That must be awful young people have such loud teeth.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, sometimes my room sounds like a dice game on
a tin roof.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Have you talked to the principle about it?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not yet that I'm going to today. He's just got
to get the Board of Education to allow us a
bigger budget for coal.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, I wish you luck, Dear. Is the Walter Dinton
picking you up this morning?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, good Tonnie.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'd like to apologize again for interrupting you before, As
I say, I've been a little worried about my eccentric
brother Victim before you go, though.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yes, goodbye, Connie, goodbye, Missus Davis.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
By the way, Missus Davis, Minnie, Miss Connie, why she's gone,
poor thing?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
She's been under a terrible strain lately.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm glad you picked me up early, Walter. I've got
to stop in and see mister Conklin before my first class.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Oh golly, miss Brooks, there must be some pleasanter way
to start off a Friday morning for a perfectly nice
English teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yes, that must be.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh it isn't it. I don't respect mister Conklin.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
It's just that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh, there's something about you, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
It well, before the hallowed walls of our beloved Madison
high heaves into view.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Would you mind taking that sentence again a little slower?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
I nearly exclaimed, before the hallowed walls if our beloved
Madison high heaves into view.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's what I thought you explained, anything wrong, miss Brooks. Well, frankly, Walder,
i'd hesitate to correct that sentence without stopping a teacher's
college for a refresher course. But what do you mean
by heaves interview?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Every so often you read about a ship that hove interviewed,
don't you. Yes, Well, hove must be the past tense,
mustn't it heave paved hove, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Of course not, Walter heave, heave, paved.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
He paved.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What do you want me to know before Madison high
heaved in the views.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
That you command as much respect as mister Conklin, plus
the admiration of the entire student body, and that your
personal warmth and charm is only exceeded by your excellence
in your chosen field of instruction.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Ain't it the truth? I don't want to seem unduly inquisitive, Walter,
but to what do I owe this verbal plaque?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
It's just a natural reaction, the completely spontaneous and unrehearsed And.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What did you get from our sponsor when you were
selected as a contestant?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
A pen and pencil set that's guaranteed. Yeah, and it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now I'm being.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Completely sincere and have no ulterior motive whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Then, thank you, Walter.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
No, that's okay, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, would you do me a favor if I say no,
you'll take back the plaque?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Well? What is it?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well, it's a basketball team. Because you know I'm the
new manager.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
So it's it's up to me to see mister Conklin
about getting some things that we need immediately, and it's
so to you to see mister Conklin for me, because
I'm rarely up to seeing mister Conklin. What I mean
is that we just got to get some more trunks.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Where are you going going?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
No, we need stuff for the guys to put on
while they're playing. You see right now, every time we
send in a substitute, he has to take a blanket
along with him and change trunks with a fellow he's replaced.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
How about ten pairs should do fine?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Ten pairs? Why don't you just get a larger blanket?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, no, this is serious, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Another thing you've got to talk to mister Conklin about
for me is the temperature in the gym.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
It's so cold, and they're.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
A good humor man has to referee the game. Of
course I'm exaggerating, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I know, Walter, But A, just what do you want
me to ask mister Conklin? And B why should it
be me instead of you?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Well, A to requisition one hundred dollars worth of equipment
for the basketball team from the school board. And B
because you're and carry more weight.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And see, if we were driving in my car, you'd
be walking by now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now you don't understand, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I'm not trying to shirk my duties, but well, this
is a legitimate fief.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
In the stockyards, when they want the sheep to run
a certain way, they don't send a little LaMotte to
guide them.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
They send an old goat. I mean, you've seen it
in the newsfield. I'm sure where they the goat and
the gosh. I hope you're not mad, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Forget it, Walder, Why should I be mad?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Then you'll do it, you ask mister Conklin for me.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I'll do my best. Now you'd better start putting on
your brakes, my brakes. Yes, the hallowed walls are hiving
into view.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Ladies, regardless of age, skin type, or previous beauty care.
Doctors prove, you too, may win a lovelier complexion with
Pomalid soap.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
But to win this lovelier complexion, the kind men admire
and women envy, you must stop improper cleansing. Instead use
palm Olive's soap the way doctors advise.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Remember thirty six doctors leading skin specialists advised one two
hundred eighty five women, many with complexion problems, to use
Palmali this way. Some have dry skin, some oily, some
course looking. Using Palmali soap alone two out of three
to one lovelier complexion. Now here's what the doctor's advised.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Wash your faith with palmolid soap massaging for one minute
with Palmalive's soft lather. This clensing massage brings your skin
Palmolive's full you to fine effect.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Rin Do this three times a day for fourteen days.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
It's that simple.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
But doctors have proved this way using nothing but pomalive
really works. So forget other beauty care. Use paw Mally's
alone for a lovelier complexion.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Pow loveliness all over.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Use big, thrifty bat size pau Molly in your tub
or shower.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Well, here we are at school, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
If you will kindly disembark, I'll find a place to
park and then return for a joust with the forces
of education.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
If I was a gambler, Walter, I'd bet on you
the place. Oh there's Harriet Conklin. I think I'll ask
her what kind of a mood her father's in.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Ohkaymis Brooks, I'll.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just a minute, Harriet, I'd like to talk to you.
Oh hello, miss Brooks. I'm glad we ran into each other.
Same here, Harriet. Did you have breakfast with your father
this morning?
Speaker 12 (09:42):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
How was he his temper?
Speaker 12 (09:44):
I mean pretty good, Miss Brooks, until mother showed him
some of the bills that had come in.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then what did you do?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Nothing unusual.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
He just slammed down its paper, bit through his coffee
cup and left.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Sure he could have bitten your mother.
Speaker 12 (10:02):
That's one of the reasons I'm glad we ran into
each other, Miss Brooks. Did I ever tell you what
an unending source of inspiration you are?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh? I must end somewhere.
Speaker 12 (10:13):
I mean it, Miss Brooks, You're more than just an
excellent instructor of English.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You're I'm the Patsy who's going to face your father
with one of your problems. All listen, psychic too.
Speaker 12 (10:25):
How did you know I wanted to trap the daddy
for me? Miss Brooks?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, why should you be an exception? Harriet? What's your bet?
Complaints the domestic Science room.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It's like a deep freeze.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That room too.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
It's so cold that most of us wear gloves all
during the class. Makes it very awkward, Miss Brooks, especially
when we're trying to use a sewing machine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It sounds pretty bad bad.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
It's terrible. Yesterday Bessy Snyder sold five of her fingers together.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I don't know what's so terrible about that gives you
an extra ladle for the cooking class. It brought the
sewing machine. We need two hundred dollars for a new one.
Oh but Harriet, Miss Brooks, it's up to you to
make conditions in the school livable for you. You mean, I'd
better be armed with plenty of facts before I face
your father, though. I think I'll make a survey.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
Of the rest of the rooms, starting with mister Boynt's
biology laboratory.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now, who's psychic? Yes, Harriet, I think I'll interview the
shy master of the microbes.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
I've been in there, Miss Brooks. It's even colder than
the other rooms. I hope you can do something about it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I should be able to with the experience I've had.
But what do you mean, Miss Brooks. I've been trying
to fall mister Boynton out for years. Come in, hello,
mister Boynton.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Oh it's you, Miss Brooks. How do you feel this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Cold? Thanks? Especially in here? Where do you hang your
sides of beef? Mister Barnton.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
That I was going to ask mister Cochland about the
heating situation. But now that you're here, I wondered if
you would naturally you better slipped this coat on, even
your voice of chivery.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now this outset I'm wearing is fairly warm. I've got
four sweaters on. You now, really aware, Let's not get racy,
mister Barney. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I didn't mean anything personal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You never do.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
The situation is pretty bad, and I'll take my prize fraud.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Madougal, for instance, he's had a sore throat for weeks,
and now with this cold spell, I'm afraid he's developing
sinus trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Here's his cage right here.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh, man, how do you feel he's insight? Have a Kleenex. Man,
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
It's no wonder he sick. Look at the tank. He's
in no provisions for heating the water at all.
Speaker 13 (12:54):
Or this morning his breakfast was frozen two inches from
his nose.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
By the time he did eat, he had indigestion.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's really awful, mister Boyden. This equipment is pretty obsolete.
What's this bowl here?
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
These must be some new fish. What's the name of
these pretty blue ones, mister Boyton.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Goldfish, they're just cold.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They could slap their tins together. Oh. Look at these
cute little guinea pigs. Now they're what I call sensible animals.
Look how they huddle together for warmth in their cage.
You know, mister Boyton, you and I could keep kind
of warm that way too.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Oh no, we couldn't, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
We could never fit into a cage that size.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh no, but it would be fun trying to look,
mister Boynton, about what you estimate it would cost for
new equipment for this lab.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
Oh, couple of one hundred dollars, roughly one fifty if
you smooth it out. That's the sort of a joke,
Miss Brooks. First I said, plea and then one fifty
if you smooth it out.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh that's Lulu.
Speaker 13 (14:08):
I know another one, but I wish you'd stop me.
If you've heard it, it's about this group of people.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I've heard it.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
We have the one about the group of people who
are all discussing something in a very animated manner, and
suddenly they stop, and this one fella says, is anybody
eating a lifesaver? And somebody else says, why in the
first chap says, because there's.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
A hole in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Is that the one you've heard? No, I heard a
different one. Tell yours. It's about it.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I just did tell it, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh so you did, mister Boynton, and a little beauty.
It was too. But I better get ready for my
first class now I'll seem it's a confliment at the
beginning of lunch period.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Well, it's awfully nice of you to do this, Miss Brooks.
Will you have lunch with me afterwards?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh? I'd love to, mister Boynton and Miss Brooks.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Please don't even bring your purse with you.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
It only embarrasses me when you try to pay your
own check in the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
All right, mister Boone, I'll leave my bag in my desk.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Fine, when I see you to your room, I can
pick up what you owe me.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's a good one too. What am I laughing at?
He's not kidding. Let's see this list now, where the
stripping for my room fifty dollars, Basketball team equipment one hundred,
(15:33):
new sewing machine about two hundred and biology lab equipment
one fifty total five hundred dollars. Of course, that's without
the additional coal we'll have to get. Well, here goes aman. Hello,
mister Conklin, I just want to sit down.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
A moment, Miss Brooke. I'm speaking on the phone.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
Yes, sir, So you see, Miss Stanhope, this senseless extravagance has.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Got to stop.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
Why do you realize that your odd class used up
three more drawing pencils this month than last? What do
you think the school board is made of money?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What?
Speaker 14 (16:04):
How can you cut down? Tell the students not to
sharpen them so often? And remember miss that Hope. It
isn't the fifty cents involved that's important.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's the money on the wall.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
And let's start cutting down expenses around here. Good day.
Now what do you want?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Happy to you, mister Conklin. I mean I just happened
to be passing your office and I thought i'd stop
in and say hello, Hello.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Now's your excuse me? I was just going to learn.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But mister Conkline, you don't want to go up to
that drafty cafeteria.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
What do you mean drafty?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh? It is. It's almost as bad as the schoolrooms.
What and the gym and the biology laboratory in the
domestic science room in which your own daughter, Harriet is
at this very moment shivering and shaking while she throws
her gloved fingers together on the sewing machine which Bethy
Snyder broke. There, I said it, and I'm glad.
Speaker 14 (16:53):
If you're angling for another vacation, miss Brooks, the answer
is enough. Now compose yourself and talk like a rational humor.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, it's like this, mister Conklin, if we could get
a larger appropriation from the school.
Speaker 14 (17:04):
A larger appropriation, miss Brooks, let me tell you what
I was planning when you so fortuitously entered my office.
I was planning on a general revision of expenses, an
economy wave the likes of which the school has never seen.
For example, you will in the future direct your pupils
to use half as much chalk.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You mean, no more capital letters.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 14 (17:31):
And this building it's kept like a hothouse. I intend
to cut way down on the supply of coal. We're wasting, wasting,
But but don't butt me, young woman.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So I can't help it. I'm the goat that was
picked for the job. That is, it's not a question
of a lot of money, mister Conklin. And the temperature
of the school is very important.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
It certainly is, and I find it extremely comfortable for
the most part. But you, why are you wearing your overcoat.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's just a silly quirk of mine, mister Conklin. I'm
trying to break up an ice jam and my arteries.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
Oh nonsense, and take off those gloves. And I wish
you'd stop smoking while you're talking to me.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm not smoking, I'm just breathing.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Well, cut it out.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
That's the trouble with people nowadays. They're all mollycoddles softy.
Why when I think of our forefathers at bally Hodge
dragging cannons through the snow with their feet wrapped in rags,
it's enough to make my blood boil.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It wouldn't boil in my room. Look, mister Conklin, if
you don't care about people, think of the poor little
animals and mister Boynan's laboratory.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
What's wrong with them?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The white mice can't run around on the treadmill without snowshoes.
But Google doesn't know whether to croak, sneeze, or hiccup,
so he does all three and it's pretty depressing.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, then don't listen to it.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And how about the basketball team. Walter Denton says that
every time one of his substitutes goes into a game,
he has to hide behind a trunk while they're changing blankets.
I just think one hundred dollars would remedy the entire situation.
One hundred dollars plus two hundred for new sewing machine,
fifty for weather stripping my room, and one hundred and
(19:20):
fifty for warmer tanks and better equipment than the biology lab.
Five hundred dollars is all you have to requisition from
the board, plus some added money for coal. And if
you'll sharpen the sword, I'll fall on it.
Speaker 14 (19:29):
On my way out, Miss Brooks, I'm going to try
to control myself.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I'm going to walk over to that window and look
out of it.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
A moment later, I'm going to turn around and you
will have gone.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Quietly out of the door.
Speaker 14 (19:53):
That's better five hundred dollars indeed, plus coal.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But here I am, miss Brooks.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
The cafeteria was pretty crowded today with young Denton here
invited us to share his table.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Sure now, miss Brooks, and want me to get your trade,
Thanks Walter, But I haven't time to eat right now.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I just left mister Conklin's office, and he's flatly refused
to requisition a penny from the school board.
Speaker 13 (20:23):
But the temperature my animals, McDougal's toes are frostbitten.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, And how about my basketball team. We got a
very important home game on tomorrow night. Net Jim is
just icy. Oh we got to do something.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
We just got to get some more coal into this building.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh, maybe we could start an airlift. Wait a minute.
The only way to make mister Conklin see the necessity
of improving the coal situation is to pretend we're all
coming down with coals.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You mean, going to his office, sneezing and coughing and all.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Exactly. He won't dare face the school board investigation if
he thinks an epidemic is starting. Besides, I happen to
know he's quite a hypochondriac when it comes to contagious germs.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
But if we really don't have calls, you to be
lying to say we have, wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's a white lie for the common good, mister Boyton.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
But you know what happens to me when I tell
a false that.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
I have a psychosomatic symptom, That causes me to hiccup.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Well we'll have to take that chance. I think of mcdoogle,
mister Boyne, those blue goldfish swimming around depending on you
to do something.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
I'll do it, Miss Brooks. I'll be darned if I don't. Oh,
I beg your pardoner.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh forget it, mister Boyton. In a crisis like this,
even I resort to profanity. Oh fudge, come in.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Uh, mister Conort, I got a bad coat?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
What it did?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Doze at dead? Mostly turn around Boyden? Want to know
those germs travel? How long have you.
Speaker 14 (21:56):
Had this code? Oh for a long time? Something from
that wretched frog of yours. I go take some aspiring
go home early, do something, but get out of this
opposite one. But mister cocklif by laboratory was a little
bit warb I'll talk to you after you've recovered fired,
mister cocklic.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Thank you, sir. You better open the window and.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Clear the air in this room.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Ah ah, that's better.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Come in.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
It's be mister cocklic water deaded. What do you want
Benden as better d of the basketball team? I'd like
to request a warble jib? A what a warter jib
to play?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
It's pleasing address.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I got a cloth you.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Too, I'll cover your face when you sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We gotta know reported game to play, to Bible, and.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
We need some heap burden.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
Well, if you've got such a bad cold, Denton, you'd
better not come around to the game tomorrow. I'll be
there and I'll appoint another manager.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But I'm not that sick, mister Conklin. I feel great.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I need I.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Think I know what you mean letting. This is all
a scheme to get me to ask the board for
more money. And I think I know who put you
up to it.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
She did not.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Come in, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
How did you know it was me? Mister Coglid, I heard.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You rehearsing your snee hee.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You look great, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Never saw you looking better.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Beg you, Walter.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You couldn't possibly have a cold or anything the way
you look. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Keep talking, Denton, I don't mind.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Why what's the better with you, Walter?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a terrible cold. By chested by head. It's
from by Rube Bster Coglid.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Have, mister Coglid, if that is the stream, you sure
do a funny imitation of a person with a cold,
Miss Brooks, whether you be diputation, sure, everybody knows you're
just fooling.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Among my own pupils. A stool pigeon.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
This was all a plot, Miss Brookes, And I'm ashamed
of you. Why, just because there's a little fresh air
circulating through the school, good fresh air, you throw a fit.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Our forefather should see you.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Now, those men at the Valley Forge dragging the cannon
through the snow with rags tied.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Around their feet, Why would I think the door was open?
So I just came on in, Daddy, Oh, what is it, Harriet?
Speaker 12 (24:31):
I talked to mother on the phone a little while ago,
and her back's bothering her a bit.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
She liked the heating pad.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
What heating pad?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
The one you've got under the cushion you're sitting on.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
Here's the plot back here now, if you'll just get
off a minute, there we are.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I'll take it home to mother right away.
Speaker 14 (24:50):
Where in the world did that thing come from?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
From Valley Forge?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Of course the.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Boys must have got some hot rags for their feet. Well.
Mister Conklin recommended the necessary expenditures to the school board
and personally ordered some coal. Immediately. I thought it was
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a very sportsman like an unselfish gesture, and I started
to tell him so when I met him in the hall.
Mister Conklin, I think it was very nice of you
to tackle this problem so promptly.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Brooks, but I was robbed up.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I'm gott to devode you.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh what's the difference, mister Conklin, As long as you've
got your health,
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, enjoyed
her vacation during the holiday is just as much as
any other teacher, but as it drew to a close,
she had a peculiar reaction.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Although I felt that my vacation had done me a
lot of good, now that it was over, I was
keed up and enthusiastic, simply raring to go, raring to
go on another two weeks vacation. Meanwhile, I went about
the business of getting used to working again, and spent
the past week noticing conditions which hadn't seemed so deplorable
during the hustle and bustle of holiday time at the school.
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I was telling my landlady, Missus Davis, about them while
we were having breakfast Friday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Let me pull you a cup of this coffee, Connie.
It's real DJ gen Niro style.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I just got the recipe, real Degennio style.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yes, I mashed up a few brazil nuts and mixed
them with the coffee ground. That's one reason why the
blonde hair of a brazil is so outstanding.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Missus Davis. Very few Brazilians have blonde hair.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That's another reason it's so outstanding. But I'm afraid I've
interrupted something you started to say to me.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Connie.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, it wasn't very important. I had just said, I.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Really shouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
It's a habit I've picked up from my brother Victor.
He's terribly absent minded.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I thought your sister Angela was the absent minded one
in the family. Angela, Yes, that's what you told me.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What did I tell.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
You that she was very absent minded? Who your brother Victor?
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
How did you know that? You never even met Victor?
But he is confused sometimes, poor dear. Why you could
be talking about something to Victor and he'd seem as
interested as could be in the conversation. But then if
you just looked away for a moment, it could be
right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Of a sentence that yes, missus David, missus Davis. You ooo,
miss David.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Open morning, Connie. I was just looking for the cat
out in the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
She hadn't touched her milk.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What do you hear from Victor pictures?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
My brother, Oh he's fine, thank you, dear. He called
me quite regularly. My sister Angela is the one that
worries me. She's the absent minded member of the family.
But I keep feeling that I disrupted your train of thought,
did I, Connie?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's not a car left on the tracks but the kaboos.
I was merely telling you, Missus Davis, that I never
realized how bad conditions were at school until this Cole's
fell set in. My classroom is so drafted that half
my pupils can't answer questions because their teeth are chattering.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That must be awful young people have such loud teeth.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, sometimes my room sounds like a dice game on
a tin roof.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Have you talked to the principle about it?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not yet that I'm going to today. He's just got
to get the Board of Education to allow us a
bigger budget for coal.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, I wish you luck, Dear. Is the Walter Dinton
picking you up this morning?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, good Tonnie.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'd like to apologize again for interrupting you before, As
I say, I've been a little worried about my eccentric
brother Victim before you go, though.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yes, goodbye, Connie, goodbye, Missus Davis.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
By the way, Missus Davis, Minnie, Miss Connie, why she's gone,
poor thing?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
She's been under a terrible strain lately.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm glad you picked me up early, Walter. I've got
to stop in and see mister Conklin before my first class.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Oh golly, miss Brooks, there must be some pleasanter way
to start off a Friday morning for a perfectly nice
English teacher.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yes, that must be.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Oh it isn't it. I don't respect mister Conklin.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
It's just that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh, there's something about you, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
It well, before the hallowed walls of our beloved Madison
high heaves into view.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Would you mind taking that sentence again a little slower?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
I nearly exclaimed, before the hallowed walls if our beloved
Madison high heaves into view.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's what I thought you explained, anything wrong, miss Brooks. Well, frankly, Walder,
i'd hesitate to correct that sentence without stopping a teacher's
college for a refresher course. But what do you mean
by heaves interview?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well?
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Every so often you read about a ship that hove interviewed,
don't you. Yes, Well, hove must be the past tense,
mustn't it heave paved hove, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Of course not, Walter heave, heave, paved.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
He paved.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What do you want me to know before Madison high
heaved in the views.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
That you command as much respect as mister Conklin, plus
the admiration of the entire student body, and that your
personal warmth and charm is only exceeded by your excellence
in your chosen field of instruction.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Ain't it the truth? I don't want to seem unduly inquisitive, Walter,
but to what do I owe this verbal plaque?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
It's just a natural reaction, the completely spontaneous and unrehearsed And.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What did you get from our sponsor when you were
selected as a contestant?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
A pen and pencil set that's guaranteed. Yeah, and it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now I'm being.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Completely sincere and have no ulterior motive whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Then, thank you, Walter.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
No, that's okay, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yes, would you do me a favor if I say no,
you'll take back the plaque?
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Well? What is it?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Well, it's a basketball team. Because you know I'm the
new manager.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
So it's it's up to me to see mister Conklin
about getting some things that we need immediately, and it's
so to you to see mister Conklin for me, because
I'm rarely up to seeing mister Conklin. What I mean
is that we just got to get some more trunks.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Where are you going going?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
No, we need stuff for the guys to put on
while they're playing. You see right now, every time we
send in a substitute, he has to take a blanket
along with him and change trunks with a fellow he's replaced.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
How about ten pairs should do fine?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Ten pairs? Why don't you just get a larger blanket?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, no, this is serious, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Another thing you've got to talk to mister Conklin about
for me is the temperature in the gym.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
It's so cold, and they're.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
A good humor man has to referee the game. Of
course I'm exaggerating, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I know, Walter, But A, just what do you want
me to ask mister Conklin? And B why should it
be me instead of you?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Well, A to requisition one hundred dollars worth of equipment
for the basketball team from the school board. And B
because you're and carry more weight.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And see, if we were driving in my car, you'd
be walking by now.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now you don't understand, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I'm not trying to shirk my duties, but well, this
is a legitimate fief.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
In the stockyards, when they want the sheep to run
a certain way, they don't send a little LaMotte to
guide them.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
They send an old goat. I mean, you've seen it
in the newsfield. I'm sure where they the goat and
the gosh. I hope you're not mad, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Forget it, Walder, Why should I be mad?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Then you'll do it, you ask mister Conklin for me.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I'll do my best. Now you'd better start putting on
your brakes, my brakes. Yes, the hallowed walls are hiving
into view.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Ladies, regardless of age, skin type, or previous beauty care.
Doctors prove, you too, may win a lovelier complexion with
Pomalid soap.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
But to win this lovelier complexion, the kind men admire
and women envy, you must stop improper cleansing. Instead use
palm Olive's soap the way doctors advise.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Remember thirty six doctors leading skin specialists advised one two
hundred eighty five women, many with complexion problems, to use
Palmali this way. Some have dry skin, some oily, some
course looking. Using Palmali soap alone two out of three
to one lovelier complexion. Now here's what the doctor's advised.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Wash your faith with palmolid soap massaging for one minute
with Palmalive's soft lather. This clensing massage brings your skin
Palmolive's full you to fine effect.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Rin Do this three times a day for fourteen days.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
It's that simple.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
But doctors have proved this way using nothing but pomalive
really works. So forget other beauty care. Use paw Mally's
alone for a lovelier complexion.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Pow loveliness all over.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Use big, thrifty bat size pau Molly in your tub
or shower.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Well, here we are at school, miss Brooks.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
If you will kindly disembark, I'll find a place to
park and then return for a joust with the forces
of education.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
If I was a gambler, Walter, I'd bet on you
the place. Oh there's Harriet Conklin. I think I'll ask
her what kind of a mood her father's in.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Ohkaymis Brooks, I'll.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just a minute, Harriet, I'd like to talk to you.
Oh hello, miss Brooks. I'm glad we ran into each other.
Same here, Harriet. Did you have breakfast with your father
this morning?
Speaker 12 (09:42):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
How was he his temper?
Speaker 12 (09:44):
I mean pretty good, Miss Brooks, until mother showed him
some of the bills that had come in.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then what did you do?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Nothing unusual.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
He just slammed down its paper, bit through his coffee
cup and left.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Sure he could have bitten your mother.
Speaker 12 (10:02):
That's one of the reasons I'm glad we ran into
each other, Miss Brooks. Did I ever tell you what
an unending source of inspiration you are?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh? I must end somewhere.
Speaker 12 (10:13):
I mean it, Miss Brooks, You're more than just an
excellent instructor of English.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You're I'm the Patsy who's going to face your father
with one of your problems. All listen, psychic too.
Speaker 12 (10:25):
How did you know I wanted to trap the daddy
for me? Miss Brooks?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, why should you be an exception? Harriet? What's your bet?
Complaints the domestic Science room.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It's like a deep freeze.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That room too.
Speaker 12 (10:38):
It's so cold that most of us wear gloves all
during the class. Makes it very awkward, Miss Brooks, especially
when we're trying to use a sewing machine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It sounds pretty bad bad.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
It's terrible. Yesterday Bessy Snyder sold five of her fingers together.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I don't know what's so terrible about that gives you
an extra ladle for the cooking class. It brought the
sewing machine. We need two hundred dollars for a new one.
Oh but Harriet, Miss Brooks, it's up to you to
make conditions in the school livable for you. You mean, I'd
better be armed with plenty of facts before I face
your father, though. I think I'll make a survey.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
Of the rest of the rooms, starting with mister Boynt's
biology laboratory.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now, who's psychic? Yes, Harriet, I think I'll interview the
shy master of the microbes.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
I've been in there, Miss Brooks. It's even colder than
the other rooms. I hope you can do something about it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I should be able to with the experience I've had.
But what do you mean, Miss Brooks. I've been trying
to fall mister Boynton out for years. Come in, hello,
mister Boynton.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Oh it's you, Miss Brooks. How do you feel this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Cold? Thanks? Especially in here? Where do you hang your
sides of beef? Mister Barnton.
Speaker 13 (11:57):
That I was going to ask mister Cochland about the
heating situation. But now that you're here, I wondered if
you would naturally you better slipped this coat on, even
your voice of chivery.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now this outset I'm wearing is fairly warm. I've got
four sweaters on. You now, really aware, Let's not get racy,
mister Barney. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I didn't mean anything personal.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You never do.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
The situation is pretty bad, and I'll take my prize fraud.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Madougal, for instance, he's had a sore throat for weeks,
and now with this cold spell, I'm afraid he's developing
sinus trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Here's his cage right here.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh, man, how do you feel he's insight? Have a Kleenex. Man,
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
It's no wonder he sick. Look at the tank. He's
in no provisions for heating the water at all.
Speaker 13 (12:54):
Or this morning his breakfast was frozen two inches from
his nose.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
By the time he did eat, he had indigestion.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's really awful, mister Boyden. This equipment is pretty obsolete.
What's this bowl here?
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
These must be some new fish. What's the name of
these pretty blue ones, mister Boyton.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Goldfish, they're just cold.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They could slap their tins together. Oh. Look at these
cute little guinea pigs. Now they're what I call sensible animals.
Look how they huddle together for warmth in their cage.
You know, mister Boyton, you and I could keep kind
of warm that way too.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Oh no, we couldn't, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
We could never fit into a cage that size.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh no, but it would be fun trying to look,
mister Boynton, about what you estimate it would cost for
new equipment for this lab.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
Oh, couple of one hundred dollars, roughly one fifty if
you smooth it out. That's the sort of a joke,
Miss Brooks. First I said, plea and then one fifty
if you smooth it out.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh that's Lulu.
Speaker 13 (14:08):
I know another one, but I wish you'd stop me.
If you've heard it, it's about this group of people.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I've heard it.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
We have the one about the group of people who
are all discussing something in a very animated manner, and
suddenly they stop, and this one fella says, is anybody
eating a lifesaver? And somebody else says, why in the
first chap says, because there's.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
A hole in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Is that the one you've heard? No, I heard a
different one. Tell yours. It's about it.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
I just did tell it, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh so you did, mister Boynton, and a little beauty.
It was too. But I better get ready for my
first class now I'll seem it's a confliment at the
beginning of lunch period.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Well, it's awfully nice of you to do this, Miss Brooks.
Will you have lunch with me afterwards?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh? I'd love to, mister Boynton and Miss Brooks.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Please don't even bring your purse with you.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
It only embarrasses me when you try to pay your
own check in the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
All right, mister Boone, I'll leave my bag in my desk.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Fine, when I see you to your room, I can
pick up what you owe me.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's a good one too. What am I laughing at?
He's not kidding. Let's see this list now, where the
stripping for my room fifty dollars, Basketball team equipment one hundred,
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new sewing machine about two hundred and biology lab equipment
one fifty total five hundred dollars. Of course, that's without
the additional coal we'll have to get. Well, here goes aman. Hello,
mister Conklin, I just want to sit down.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
A moment, Miss Brooke. I'm speaking on the phone.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
Yes, sir, So you see, Miss Stanhope, this senseless extravagance has.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Got to stop.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
Why do you realize that your odd class used up
three more drawing pencils this month than last? What do
you think the school board is made of money?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What?
Speaker 14 (16:04):
How can you cut down? Tell the students not to
sharpen them so often? And remember miss that Hope. It
isn't the fifty cents involved that's important.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It's the money on the wall.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
And let's start cutting down expenses around here. Good day.
Now what do you want?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Happy to you, mister Conklin. I mean I just happened
to be passing your office and I thought i'd stop
in and say hello, Hello.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Now's your excuse me? I was just going to learn.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But mister Conkline, you don't want to go up to
that drafty cafeteria.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
What do you mean drafty?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh? It is. It's almost as bad as the schoolrooms.
What and the gym and the biology laboratory in the
domestic science room in which your own daughter, Harriet is
at this very moment shivering and shaking while she throws
her gloved fingers together on the sewing machine which Bethy
Snyder broke. There, I said it, and I'm glad.
Speaker 14 (16:53):
If you're angling for another vacation, miss Brooks, the answer
is enough. Now compose yourself and talk like a rational humor.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, it's like this, mister Conklin, if we could get
a larger appropriation from the school.
Speaker 14 (17:04):
A larger appropriation, miss Brooks, let me tell you what
I was planning when you so fortuitously entered my office.
I was planning on a general revision of expenses, an
economy wave the likes of which the school has never seen.
For example, you will in the future direct your pupils
to use half as much chalk.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You mean, no more capital letters.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 14 (17:31):
And this building it's kept like a hothouse. I intend
to cut way down on the supply of coal. We're wasting, wasting,
But but don't butt me, young woman.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So I can't help it. I'm the goat that was
picked for the job. That is, it's not a question
of a lot of money, mister Conklin. And the temperature
of the school is very important.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
It certainly is, and I find it extremely comfortable for
the most part. But you, why are you wearing your overcoat.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It's just a silly quirk of mine, mister Conklin. I'm
trying to break up an ice jam and my arteries.
Speaker 14 (18:07):
Oh nonsense, and take off those gloves. And I wish
you'd stop smoking while you're talking to me.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I'm not smoking, I'm just breathing.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Well, cut it out.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
That's the trouble with people nowadays. They're all mollycoddles softy.
Why when I think of our forefathers at bally Hodge
dragging cannons through the snow with their feet wrapped in rags,
it's enough to make my blood boil.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It wouldn't boil in my room. Look, mister Conklin, if
you don't care about people, think of the poor little
animals and mister Boynan's laboratory.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
What's wrong with them?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
The white mice can't run around on the treadmill without snowshoes.
But Google doesn't know whether to croak, sneeze, or hiccup,
so he does all three and it's pretty depressing.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, then don't listen to it.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And how about the basketball team. Walter Denton says that
every time one of his substitutes goes into a game,
he has to hide behind a trunk while they're changing blankets.
I just think one hundred dollars would remedy the entire situation.
One hundred dollars plus two hundred for new sewing machine,
fifty for weather stripping my room, and one hundred and
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fifty for warmer tanks and better equipment than the biology lab.
Five hundred dollars is all you have to requisition from
the board, plus some added money for coal. And if
you'll sharpen the sword, I'll fall on it.
Speaker 14 (19:29):
On my way out, Miss Brooks, I'm going to try
to control myself.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I'm going to walk over to that window and look
out of it.
Speaker 14 (19:41):
A moment later, I'm going to turn around and you
will have gone.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Quietly out of the door.
Speaker 14 (19:53):
That's better five hundred dollars indeed, plus coal.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But here I am, miss Brooks.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
The cafeteria was pretty crowded today with young Denton here
invited us to share his table.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Sure now, miss Brooks, and want me to get your trade,
Thanks Walter, But I haven't time to eat right now.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I just left mister Conklin's office, and he's flatly refused
to requisition a penny from the school board.
Speaker 13 (20:23):
But the temperature my animals, McDougal's toes are frostbitten.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, And how about my basketball team. We got a
very important home game on tomorrow night. Net Jim is
just icy. Oh we got to do something.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
We just got to get some more coal into this building.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh, maybe we could start an airlift. Wait a minute.
The only way to make mister Conklin see the necessity
of improving the coal situation is to pretend we're all
coming down with coals.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You mean, going to his office, sneezing and coughing and all.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Exactly. He won't dare face the school board investigation if
he thinks an epidemic is starting. Besides, I happen to
know he's quite a hypochondriac when it comes to contagious germs.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
But if we really don't have calls, you to be
lying to say we have, wouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's a white lie for the common good, mister Boyton.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
But you know what happens to me when I tell
a false that.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
I have a psychosomatic symptom, That causes me to hiccup.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Well we'll have to take that chance. I think of mcdoogle,
mister Boyne, those blue goldfish swimming around depending on you
to do something.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
I'll do it, Miss Brooks. I'll be darned if I don't. Oh,
I beg your pardoner.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh forget it, mister Boyton. In a crisis like this,
even I resort to profanity. Oh fudge, come in.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Uh, mister Conort, I got a bad coat?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
What it did?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
By?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Doze at dead? Mostly turn around Boyden? Want to know
those germs travel? How long have you.
Speaker 14 (21:56):
Had this code? Oh for a long time? Something from
that wretched frog of yours. I go take some aspiring
go home early, do something, but get out of this
opposite one. But mister cocklif by laboratory was a little
bit warb I'll talk to you after you've recovered fired,
mister cocklic.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Thank you, sir. You better open the window and.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Clear the air in this room.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Ah ah, that's better.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Come in.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
It's be mister cocklic water deaded. What do you want
Benden as better d of the basketball team? I'd like
to request a warble jib? A what a warter jib
to play?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
It's pleasing address.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I got a cloth you.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Too, I'll cover your face when you sleep.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
We gotta know reported game to play, to Bible, and.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
We need some heap burden.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
Well, if you've got such a bad cold, Denton, you'd
better not come around to the game tomorrow. I'll be
there and I'll appoint another manager.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But I'm not that sick, mister Conklin. I feel great.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I need I.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Think I know what you mean letting. This is all
a scheme to get me to ask the board for
more money. And I think I know who put you
up to it.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
She did not.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Come in, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
How did you know it was me? Mister Coglid, I heard.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You rehearsing your snee hee.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You look great, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Never saw you looking better.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Beg you, Walter.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You couldn't possibly have a cold or anything the way
you look. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Keep talking, Denton, I don't mind.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Why what's the better with you, Walter?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I have a terrible cold. By chested by head. It's
from by Rube Bster Coglid.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Have, mister Coglid, if that is the stream, you sure
do a funny imitation of a person with a cold,
Miss Brooks, whether you be diputation, sure, everybody knows you're
just fooling.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Among my own pupils. A stool pigeon.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
This was all a plot, Miss Brookes, And I'm ashamed
of you. Why, just because there's a little fresh air
circulating through the school, good fresh air, you throw a fit.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Our forefather should see you.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Now, those men at the Valley Forge dragging the cannon
through the snow with rags tied.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Around their feet, Why would I think the door was open?
So I just came on in, Daddy, Oh, what is it, Harriet?
Speaker 12 (24:31):
I talked to mother on the phone a little while ago,
and her back's bothering her a bit.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
She liked the heating pad.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
What heating pad?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
The one you've got under the cushion you're sitting on.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
Here's the plot back here now, if you'll just get
off a minute, there we are.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I'll take it home to mother right away.
Speaker 14 (24:50):
Where in the world did that thing come from?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
From Valley Forge?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Of course the.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Boys must have got some hot rags for their feet. Well.
Mister Conklin recommended the necessary expenditures to the school board
and personally ordered some coal. Immediately. I thought it was
(25:20):
a very sportsman like an unselfish gesture, and I started
to tell him so when I met him in the hall.
Mister Conklin, I think it was very nice of you
to tackle this problem so promptly.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Brooks, but I was robbed up.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I'm gott to devode you.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh what's the difference, mister Conklin, As long as you've
got your health,
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