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Page xvi
Don't be over ambitious . If , as was suggested in the example cited a moment ago , the subject is fanciful - as it is very apt to be at a college banquet - any interpretation you choose to put upon it is allowable .
Don't be over ambitious . If , as was suggested in the example cited a moment ago , the subject is fanciful - as it is very apt to be at a college banquet - any interpretation you choose to put upon it is allowable .
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Don't use quotations that are shopworn , and avoid the set forms for toasts- " Our sweethearts and wives - may they never meet , " etc. Don't apologize . Don't say that you are not prepared ; that you speak on very short notice ...
Don't use quotations that are shopworn , and avoid the set forms for toasts- " Our sweethearts and wives - may they never meet , " etc. Don't apologize . Don't say that you are not prepared ; that you speak on very short notice ...
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One of the double - in - brass actors turned toward the fowl and angrily exclaimed : " Don't be so dern quick to jump at conclusions . Wait till you see the show . " - K . A. Bisbee . When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet ...
One of the double - in - brass actors turned toward the fowl and angrily exclaimed : " Don't be so dern quick to jump at conclusions . Wait till you see the show . " - K . A. Bisbee . When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet ...
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Tie yourself to an anchor chain And don't go near the airy . " -Judge . Harry N. Atwood , the noted aviator , was the guest of honor at a dinner in New York , and on the occasion his eloquent reply to a toast on aviation terminated ...
Tie yourself to an anchor chain And don't go near the airy . " -Judge . Harry N. Atwood , the noted aviator , was the guest of honor at a dinner in New York , and on the occasion his eloquent reply to a toast on aviation terminated ...
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Why don't you stay in out of the rain ? " asked the fruitman . " I don't mind a little dew like this , " said the man . " I can work along just the same . " " Oh , I'm not talking about that , " exclaimed the fruit - man .
Why don't you stay in out of the rain ? " asked the fruitman . " I don't mind a little dew like this , " said the man . " I can work along just the same . " " Oh , I'm not talking about that , " exclaimed the fruit - man .
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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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