Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page vi
... determined . We find , too , that at one time a " humour " meant any animal or plant fluid , and again any kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of humour , and I think we shall haue raine , " ran an ancient weather vi SENSE OF HUMOR.
... determined . We find , too , that at one time a " humour " meant any animal or plant fluid , and again any kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of humour , and I think we shall haue raine , " ran an ancient weather vi SENSE OF HUMOR.
Page vii
... kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant and animal life . It was restricted later within purely physiological boundaries and was applied only to those " humours ” of the human body that controlled ...
... kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant and animal life . It was restricted later within purely physiological boundaries and was applied only to those " humours ” of the human body that controlled ...
Page viii
... kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what difference does it make what that humor is ; what difference why or wherefore we laugh , since somehow or other , in a sorry world ...
... kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what difference does it make what that humor is ; what difference why or wherefore we laugh , since somehow or other , in a sorry world ...
Page ix
... of the Christian virtues - it suffereth long and is kind . Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures SENSE OF HUMOR ix.
... of the Christian virtues - it suffereth long and is kind . Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures SENSE OF HUMOR ix.
Page x
... kind . Foreigners , too , unacquainted with American slang often find themselves precipitating a laugh for which they are unprepared . For a bit of current slang , however and whenever used , is always humorous . The American is not ...
... kind . Foreigners , too , unacquainted with American slang often find themselves precipitating a laugh for which they are unprepared . For a bit of current slang , however and whenever used , is always humorous . The American is not ...
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