Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories and QuotationsPeggy Edmund H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... 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 the late fourteenth century , we met Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of ...
... 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 the late fourteenth century , we met Chaucer's physician who knew " the cause of ...
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... 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 neces- sity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins . " Such a one would ...
... 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 neces- sity of responding to a toast on , say " Needles and Pins . " Such a one would ...
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... with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the opposite direction . In seeking to avoid each other , both slipped and they came down in a heap . The polite TOASTERS' HANDBOOK ...
... with ice and the doctor was making his way carefully , as was also a woman going in the opposite direction . In seeking to avoid each other , both slipped and they came down in a heap . The polite TOASTERS' HANDBOOK ...
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... woman at her home . The actress was very tired and quiet , but a chance remark from the dresser made her open her eyes and sit up . " I should have went on the stage , " said the young woman complacently . " But , " returned Mrs. Fiske ...
... woman at her home . The actress was very tired and quiet , but a chance remark from the dresser made her open her eyes and sit up . " I should have went on the stage , " said the young woman complacently . " But , " returned Mrs. Fiske ...
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... woman . The florist himself filled the order , and , thinking to improve on it , said to his clerk : " Here's an order from young Jones for twenty roses . He's one of my best customers , so I'll throw in ten more for good measure ...
... woman . The florist himself filled the order , and , thinking to improve on it , said to his clerk : " Here's an order from young Jones for twenty roses . He's one of my best customers , so I'll throw in ten more for good measure ...
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Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories and Quotations Peggy Edmund,Harold Workman Williams No preview available - 2013 |
Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories and Quotations Peggy Edmund,Harold Workman Williams No preview available - 2013 |
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