Jazz whispers

“Young lady, you look straight out of Sylphides!”
“Dat ain’t true, I’m totally healthy!”
(Die Muskete, Vienna, 1923) (Les Sylphides was an early Romantic ballet most famously revived by Michel Fokine in 1909.)

Cutting the fever

“My God, doctor! Are you going to cut something?”
“Yes, señores. I’m going to cut the fever!”
(Buen Humor, Madrid, 1923)

But every day I remove them

“This disease in the boy’s hair is due to bacteria…”
“But every day I remove them and kill them.”
(Tuulispää, Helsinki, 1923)

Three days ago

“Do you know that Lolita has declared herself…?” [i.e., she has been spoken for?]
“At last…! Who?”
“No one, gals, it was measles that declared itself three days ago.”
(Buen humor, Madrid, 1923) (shaky on the idiom)

A burden

“Man, how long has it been since we saw each other! What’s been happening with you?”
“I’ve been down with the flu.”
“So are you okay?”
“The doctor says yes, but I still feel heaviness in my head.”
(Buen humor, Madrid, 1923)