Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page v
... Miss Repplier - over which appreciative readers may continue to chuckle ; Englishmen may continue , as in the past to produce the most exquisite of the world's humorous literature - think of Charles Lamb - yet the fundamental faith of ...
... Miss Repplier - over which appreciative readers may continue to chuckle ; Englishmen may continue , as in the past to produce the most exquisite of the world's humorous literature - think of Charles Lamb - yet the fundamental faith of ...
Page ix
... Miss Repplier , how- ever , gives to modern times the credit for some inventiveness . Christianity , she says , must be thanked for such contributions as the missionary and cannibal joke , and for the interminable vari- ations of St ...
... Miss Repplier , how- ever , gives to modern times the credit for some inventiveness . Christianity , she says , must be thanked for such contributions as the missionary and cannibal joke , and for the interminable vari- ations of St ...
Page x
... 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 . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other lands do ...
... 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 . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other lands do ...
Page xv
... missed these occa- sions entirely - but he is to be found . Especially is this true in a world where toasting and after - dinner speaking are coming to be more and more in demand at social functions - the college world . Here the young ...
... missed these occa- sions entirely - but he is to be found . Especially is this true in a world where toasting and after - dinner speaking are coming to be more and more in demand at social functions - the college world . Here the young ...
Page xvii
... miss it . Avoid flights of rhetoric and do not lose your anecdotes in a sea of words . Avoid didacticism . Do not try to instruct . Do not give statistics and figures . They will not be remembered . A his- torical résumé of your subject ...
... miss it . Avoid flights of rhetoric and do not lose your anecdotes in a sea of words . Avoid didacticism . Do not try to instruct . Do not give statistics and figures . They will not be remembered . A his- torical résumé of your subject ...
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