Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1923 - 483 pages |
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... passing that the old meaning of the word still lingers in the verb " to humor . " A woman still humors her spoiled child and her cantankerous husband when she yields to their capriciousness . By going back a step further in history , to ...
... passing that the old meaning of the word still lingers in the verb " to humor . " A woman still humors her spoiled child and her cantankerous husband when she yields to their capriciousness . By going back a step further in history , to ...
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... passing Daly's Theatre , and paused to look at the pictures of Hitchcock and his company that adorned the entrance . Near the pictures was a billboard covered with laud- atory extracts from newspaper criticisms of the show . When Foy ...
... passing Daly's Theatre , and paused to look at the pictures of Hitchcock and his company that adorned the entrance . Near the pictures was a billboard covered with laud- atory extracts from newspaper criticisms of the show . When Foy ...
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... passed his fifth birthday was riding in a suburban car with his mother , when they were asked the customary question , “ How old is the boy ? " After being told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to ...
... passed his fifth birthday was riding in a suburban car with his mother , when they were asked the customary question , “ How old is the boy ? " After being told the correct age , which did not require a fare , the conductor passed on to ...
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... passed between the two queens , the one from the Sandwich Islands said that she had English blood in her veins . " How so ? " inquired Victoria . " My ancestors ate Captain Cook . " Signor Marconi , in an interview in Washington ...
... passed between the two queens , the one from the Sandwich Islands said that she had English blood in her veins . " How so ? " inquired Victoria . " My ancestors ate Captain Cook . " Signor Marconi , in an interview in Washington ...
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... passed ; but it didn't come . Twenty , thirty , and an hour - still no regiment . The aide came tearing back hatless , breathless . " My regiment ! My regiment ! Where is it ? Where is it ? " shrieked the commander . " General ...
... passed ; but it didn't come . Twenty , thirty , and an hour - still no regiment . The aide came tearing back hatless , breathless . " My regiment ! My regiment ! Where is it ? Where is it ? " shrieked the commander . " General ...
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