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By going back a step further in history , to the late fourteenth century , we met Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of everye maladye , and where engendered and of what humour " and find that Chaucer is not speaking of a mental ...
By going back a step further in history , to the late fourteenth century , we met Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of everye maladye , and where engendered and of what humour " and find that Chaucer is not speaking of a mental ...
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But suppose you come late on the program ! Suppose the other speakers have not heeded Bacon ? What are you going to do about it ? Here is a story that James Bryce tells of the most successful after - dinner speech he remembers to have ...
But suppose you come late on the program ! Suppose the other speakers have not heeded Bacon ? What are you going to do about it ? Here is a story that James Bryce tells of the most successful after - dinner speech he remembers to have ...
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ACCIDENTS The late Dr. Henry Thayer , founder of Thayer's Laboratory in Cambridge , was walking along a street one winter morning . The sidewalk was sheeted with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman ...
ACCIDENTS The late Dr. Henry Thayer , founder of Thayer's Laboratory in Cambridge , was walking along a street one winter morning . The sidewalk was sheeted with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman ...
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At a late hour of the same day , in the Garrick Club , a lounging gentleman produced one of the telegrams , and read it to a group of friends . A chorus of exclamations followed the reading : " Why , I got precisely the same message !
At a late hour of the same day , in the Garrick Club , a lounging gentleman produced one of the telegrams , and read it to a group of friends . A chorus of exclamations followed the reading : " Why , I got precisely the same message !
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... 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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| 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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