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Here the young man or woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner speech , may be confronted with the necessity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins .
Here the young man or woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner speech , may be confronted with the necessity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins .
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... in his native town , and remembered an old negro and his wife , who had been body servants in his father's household , with a couple of seats in the theatre . As it happened , he was playing the part of the villain , and was largely ...
... in his native town , and remembered an old negro and his wife , who had been body servants in his father's household , with a couple of seats in the theatre . As it happened , he was playing the part of the villain , and was largely ...
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In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
In a North of England town recently a company of local amateurs produced Hamlet , and the following account of the proceedings appeared in the local paper next morning : " Last night all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered ...
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So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland western town to give vent to his ambition and " try it on . " When he came back to New York a group of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much ...
So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland western town to give vent to his ambition and " try it on . " When he came back to New York a group of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much ...
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Paderewski arrived in a small western town about noon one day and decided to take a walk in the afternoon . While strolling along he heard a piano , and , following the sound , came to a house on which was a sign reading : " Miss Jones ...
Paderewski arrived in a small western town about noon one day and decided to take a walk in the afternoon . While strolling along he heard a piano , and , following the sound , came to a house on which was a sign reading : " Miss Jones ...
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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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