Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... judges were not so well prepared as they should have been to withstand the force of them ! " After considering the nature of the occasion and getting himself in harmony with it , the speaker should next consider the relation of his ...
... judges were not so well prepared as they should have been to withstand the force of them ! " After considering the nature of the occasion and getting himself in harmony with it , the speaker should next consider the relation of his ...
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... Judge . Harry N. Atwood , the noted aviator , was the guest of honor at a dinner in New York , and on the occasion his elo- quent reply to a toast on aviation terminated neatly with these words : " The aeroplane has come at last , but ...
... Judge . Harry N. Atwood , the noted aviator , was the guest of honor at a dinner in New York , and on the occasion his elo- quent reply to a toast on aviation terminated neatly with these words : " The aeroplane has come at last , but ...
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... judge from appearances . He's got a gumboil on one side of his face and he has been stung by a wasp on the other . " APPLAUSE A certain theatrical troupe , after a dreary and unsuccess- ful tour , finally arrived in a small New Jersey ...
... judge from appearances . He's got a gumboil on one side of his face and he has been stung by a wasp on the other . " APPLAUSE A certain theatrical troupe , after a dreary and unsuccess- ful tour , finally arrived in a small New Jersey ...
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... Judge . BREATH One day a teacher was having a first - grade class in phys- iology . She asked them if they knew that there was a burn- ing fire in the body all of the time . One little girl spoke up and said : " Yes'm , when it is a ...
... Judge . BREATH One day a teacher was having a first - grade class in phys- iology . She asked them if they knew that there was a burn- ing fire in the body all of the time . One little girl spoke up and said : " Yes'm , when it is a ...
Page 67
... judge , disgusted with a jury that seemed unable to reach an agreement in a perfectly evident case , rose and said , “ I discharge this jury . " One sensitive talesman , indignant at what he considered a rebuke , obstinately faced the judge ...
... judge , disgusted with a jury that seemed unable to reach an agreement in a perfectly evident case , rose and said , “ I discharge this jury . " One sensitive talesman , indignant at what he considered a rebuke , obstinately faced the judge ...
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