The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 4 (September 1, 1931.)
Explained
Explained.
“I say, Bill,” said a bricklayer to his mate, “what's a cosmopolitan?”
“Well,” was the careful reply, “if there was a Russian Jew living in Scotland with an Italian wife smoking Turkish cigarettes at a French window, in a room with a Persian carpet and a German band was playing ‘The dear little Shamrock’ after a supper of Dutch cheese made into a Welsh rabbit, you'd be quite safe in saying that chap was a cosmopolitan!”
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