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Page v
If one were asked to go further than this and to give offhand a definition of humor , or of that elusive quality , a sense of humor , he might find himself confronted with a difficulty . Yet certain things about it would be patent at ...
If one were asked to go further than this and to give offhand a definition of humor , or of that elusive quality , a sense of humor , he might find himself confronted with a difficulty . Yet certain things about it would be patent at ...
Page vii
Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor . Now in part this development is easily traced . Humor , meaning moisture of any kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant ...
Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor . Now in part this development is easily traced . Humor , meaning moisture of any kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant ...
Page xiv
The toastmaster should strive to make his speakers feel at ease , to give them good standing with their hearers without overpraising them and making it hard to live up to what is expected of them . In short , let everybody boost good ...
The toastmaster should strive to make his speakers feel at ease , to give them good standing with their hearers without overpraising them and making it hard to live up to what is expected of them . In short , let everybody boost good ...
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Now we are going to add a special paragraph for the abso- * lutely inexperienced person - who has never given , or heard anyone else give , a toast . It would seem hardly possible in this day of banquets to find an individual who has ...
Now we are going to add a special paragraph for the abso- * lutely inexperienced person - who has never given , or heard anyone else give , a toast . It would seem hardly possible in this day of banquets to find an individual who has ...
Page xvi
The speaker should strive to give the effect of spontaneity , but this can be done only with practice . The toast calls for the art that conceals art . Let your speech have unity . As some one has pointed out , the after - dinner speech ...
The speaker should strive to give the effect of spontaneity , but this can be done only with practice . The toast calls for the art that conceals art . Let your speech have unity . As some one has pointed out , the after - dinner speech ...
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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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