Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page vi
... called a man " humorous " he meant that he was change- able 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 Shrew " of " her ...
... called a man " humorous " he meant that he was change- able 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 Shrew " of " her ...
Page xvi
... called for , with a touch of honest pride and sentiment . To sum up what has been said , with borrowings from what others have said on the subject , the following general rules have been formulated : Prepare carefully . Self ...
... called for , with a touch of honest pride and sentiment . To sum up what has been said , with borrowings from what others have said on the subject , the following general rules have been formulated : Prepare carefully . Self ...
Page xvii
... 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 . Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience ...
... 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 . Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience ...
Page 6
... 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 public how great a histrionic genius had remained unknown ...
... 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 public how great a histrionic genius had remained unknown ...
Page 15
... , 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 late John Bigelow , the patriarch of diplomats and TOASTER'S HANDBOOK 15.
... , 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 late John Bigelow , the patriarch of diplomats and TOASTER'S HANDBOOK 15.
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