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When Shakespeare called a man " humorous " he meant that he was changeable and capricious , not that he was given to a facetious turn of thought or to a " sportive " exercise of the imagination . When he talks in " The Taming of the ...
When Shakespeare called a man " humorous " he meant that he was changeable and capricious , not that he was given to a facetious turn of thought or to a " sportive " exercise of the imagination . When he talks in " The Taming of the ...
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Of course the subject on such occasions is often of a more serious nature - Our Class ; The Team ; Our President — in which case a more serious treatment is called for , with a touch of honest pride and sentiment .
Of course the subject on such occasions is often of a more serious nature - Our Class ; The Team ; Our President — in which case a more serious treatment is called for , with a touch of honest pride and sentiment .
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A historical résumé of your subject from the beginning of time is not called for ; neither are well - known facts about the greatness of your city or state or the prominent person in whose honor you may be speaking .
A historical résumé of your subject from the beginning of time is not called for ; neither are well - known facts about the greatness of your city or state or the prominent person in whose honor you may be speaking .
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Orlando Day , a fourth - rate actor in London , was once called , in a sudden emergency , to supply the place of Allen Ainsworth at the Criterion Theatre for a single night . The call filled him with joy . Here was a chance to show the ...
Orlando Day , a fourth - rate actor in London , was once called , in a sudden emergency , to supply the place of Allen Ainsworth at the Criterion Theatre for a single night . The call filled him with joy . Here was a chance to show the ...
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The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that full information had not been given , called loudly to the conductor , then at the other end of the car : " And mother's thirty - one !
The boy sat quite still as if pondering over some question , and then , concluding that full information had not been given , called loudly to the conductor , then at the other end of the car : " And mother's thirty - one !
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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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