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
... woman still humors her spoiled child and her cantankerous husband when she yields to their capriciousness . By going back a step further in history , to the late fourteenth century , we meet Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of ...
... woman still humors her spoiled child and her cantankerous husband when she yields to their capriciousness . By going back a step further in history , to the late fourteenth century , we meet Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of ...
Page xi
... woman with none . Yet he told his best stories with an eye to their effect on her , and when her response came , peaceful and placid and non - comprehending , he would look about the table with delight , as much as to say , " Isn't she ...
... woman with none . Yet he told his best stories with an eye to their effect on her , and when her response came , peaceful and placid and non - comprehending , he would look about the table with delight , as much as to say , " Isn't she ...
Page xv
... woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner speech , may be confronted with the neces- sity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins . " Such a one would ...
... woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner speech , may be confronted with the neces- sity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins . " Such a one would ...
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... with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the opposite direction . In seeking to avoid each other , both slipped and they came down in a heap . The polite TOASTER'S HANDBOOK ...
... with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the opposite direction . In seeking to avoid each other , both slipped and they came down in a heap . The polite TOASTER'S HANDBOOK ...
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... woman was equal to the occasion . " Doctor , if you will be kind enough to rise and pick out your legs , I will take what remains , " she said cheerfully . " Help ! Help ! " cried an Italian laborer near the mud flats of the Harlem ...
... woman was equal to the occasion . " Doctor , if you will be kind enough to rise and pick out your legs , I will take what remains , " she said cheerfully . " Help ! Help ! " cried an Italian laborer near the mud flats of the Harlem ...
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