Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... REVISED , PUBLISHED APRIL , 1916 THIRD EDITION , SECOND REPRINTING , DECEMBER , 1921 THIRD EDITION , THIRD REPRINTING , OCTOBER , 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that.
... REVISED , PUBLISHED APRIL , 1916 THIRD EDITION , SECOND REPRINTING , DECEMBER , 1921 THIRD EDITION , THIRD REPRINTING , OCTOBER , 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Nothing so frightens a man as the announcement that.
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... : women have no sense of humor , and an Englishman cannot see a joke ! And the ability to " see a joke " is the infal- lible American test of the sense of humor . But taking the matter seriously , how would one define.
... : women have no sense of humor , and an Englishman cannot see a joke ! And the ability to " see a joke " is the infal- lible American test of the sense of humor . But taking the matter seriously , how would one define.
Page vii
... American humor is based on Ameri- can dyspepsia . Yet the philosophers themselves have endeavored to explain it . Hazlitt held that to understand the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . And to apprehend the serious ...
... American humor is based on Ameri- can dyspepsia . Yet the philosophers themselves have endeavored to explain it . Hazlitt held that to understand the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . And to apprehend the serious ...
Page ix
... American newspapers would per- haps result in a slightly different list . We have , of course , our purely local jokes . Boston will always be a joke to Chicago , the east to the west . The city girl in the country offers a per- ennial ...
... American newspapers would per- haps result in a slightly different list . We have , of course , our purely local jokes . Boston will always be a joke to Chicago , the east to the west . The city girl in the country offers a per- ennial ...
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... American is not only a humorous person , he is a prac tical person . So it is only natural that the American humor should be put to practical uses . It was once said that the differ- ence between a man with tact and a man without was ...
... American is not only a humorous person , he is a prac tical person . So it is only natural that the American humor should be put to practical uses . It was once said that the differ- ence between a man with tact and a man without was ...
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