Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1923 - 483 pages |
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Page vii
... keep them apart . " Wit is abrupt , darting , scornful ; it tosses its analogies in your face ; humor is slow and shy , insinuating its fun into your heart , " says E. P. Whipple . " Wit is intellectual , humor is emo- tional ; wit is ...
... keep them apart . " Wit is abrupt , darting , scornful ; it tosses its analogies in your face ; humor is slow and shy , insinuating its fun into your heart , " says E. P. Whipple . " Wit is intellectual , humor is emo- tional ; wit is ...
Page ix
... keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ? -once said that there are eleven original jokes in the world - that these were known ...
... keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ? -once said that there are eleven original jokes in the world - that these were known ...
Page 22
... keep people from vice . - Samuel Johnson . ANATOMY TOMMY " My gran'pa wuz in th ' civil war , an ' he lost a leg or a arm in every battle he fit in ! " JOHNNY " Gee ! How many battles was he in ? " TOMMY- " About forty . " They thought ...
... keep people from vice . - Samuel Johnson . ANATOMY TOMMY " My gran'pa wuz in th ' civil war , an ' he lost a leg or a arm in every battle he fit in ! " JOHNNY " Gee ! How many battles was he in ? " TOMMY- " About forty . " They thought ...
Page 36
... keeps about six months ahead of my income generally . " “ What is the name of your automobile ? ' " I don't know . " " You don't know ? What do your folks call it ? " " Oh , as to that , father always says ' The Mortgage ' ; brother Tom ...
... keeps about six months ahead of my income generally . " “ What is the name of your automobile ? ' " I don't know . " " You don't know ? What do your folks call it ? " " Oh , as to that , father always says ' The Mortgage ' ; brother Tom ...
Page 38
... keep still and I can run to one side of him . " In certain sections of West Virginia there is no liking for automobilists , as was evidenced in the case of a Washingtonian who was motoring in a sparsely settled region of the State ...
... keep still and I can run to one side of him . " In certain sections of West Virginia there is no liking for automobilists , as was evidenced in the case of a Washingtonian who was motoring in a sparsely settled region of the State ...
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