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Page xv
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 ...
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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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... an ' ' e never made such a bloomin ' fuss as you're doin ' . " A preacher had ordered a load of hay from one of his parishioners . About noon , the parishioner's little son came to the house crying lustily .
... an ' ' e never made such a bloomin ' fuss as you're doin ' . " A preacher had ordered a load of hay from one of his parishioners . About noon , the parishioner's little son came to the house crying lustily .
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... brought back the book to the librarian and said : " This book does not give me what I require ; I want to find out the addresses of several American magnates ; I know where George Washington has gone to , for he never told a lie .
... brought back the book to the librarian and said : " This book does not give me what I require ; I want to find out the addresses of several American magnates ; I know where George Washington has gone to , for he never told a lie .
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Never laughed so much at any one in all my life . " Is he as good as Foy ? " ventured Foy hopefully . " As good as Foy ! " The young man's scorn was superb . " Why , this Hitchcock has got that Foy person looking like a gloom .
Never laughed so much at any one in all my life . " Is he as good as Foy ? " ventured Foy hopefully . " As good as Foy ! " The young man's scorn was superb . " Why , this Hitchcock has got that Foy person looking like a gloom .
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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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