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... PUBLISHED APRIL , 1916 THIRD EDITION , SECOND REPRINTING , DECEMBER , 1921 THIRD EDITION , THIRD REPRINTING , OCTOBER , 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that.
... PUBLISHED APRIL , 1916 THIRD EDITION , SECOND REPRINTING , DECEMBER , 1921 THIRD EDITION , THIRD REPRINTING , OCTOBER , 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that.
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... remain unshaken : women have no sense of humor , and an Englishman cannot see a joke ! And the ability to " see a joke " is the infallible American test of the sense of humor . 1 But taking the matter seriously , how would one define.
... remain unshaken : women have no sense of humor , and an Englishman cannot see a joke ! And the ability to " see a joke " is the infallible American test of the sense of humor . 1 But taking the matter seriously , how would one define.
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It would be distressing , as some one pointed out , to discover that American humor is based on American dyspepsia . Yet the philosophers themselves have endeavored to explain it . Hazlitt held that to understand the ludicrous , we must ...
It would be distressing , as some one pointed out , to discover that American humor is based on American dyspepsia . Yet the philosophers themselves have endeavored to explain it . Hazlitt held that to understand the ludicrous , we must ...
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A like examination of American newspapers would perhaps result in a slightly different list . We have , of course , our purely local jokes . Boston will always be a joke to Chicago , the east to the west . The city girl in the country ...
A like examination of American newspapers would perhaps result in a slightly different list . We have , of course , our purely local jokes . Boston will always be a joke to Chicago , the east to the west . The city girl in the country ...
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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 only a ...
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 only a ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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