Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1923 - 483 pages |
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... 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 state at all , but is referring to those physi ...
... 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 state at all , but is referring to those physi ...
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... 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 heard . The speaker ...
... 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 heard . The speaker ...
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... late Dr. Henry Thayer , founder of Thayer's Laboratory in Cambridge , was walking along a street one winter morn- ing . The sidewalk was sheeted with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the ...
... late Dr. Henry Thayer , founder of Thayer's Laboratory in Cambridge , was walking along a street one winter morn- ing . The sidewalk was sheeted with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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