Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page vi
... sure a confidence in its stability , has had a long and varied history and has answered to many aliases . When Shake- speare called a man " humorous " he meant that he was change- able and capricious , not that he was given to a ...
... sure a confidence in its stability , has had a long and varied history and has answered to many aliases . When Shake- speare called a man " humorous " he meant that he was change- able and capricious , not that he was given to a ...
Page xvi
... sure of yourself . Pride goes before a fall , and overconfidence in his ability to improvise has been the downfall of many a would - be speaker . The speaker should strive to give the effect of spontaneity , but this can be done only ...
... sure of yourself . Pride goes before a fall , and overconfidence in his ability to improvise has been the downfall of many a would - be speaker . The speaker should strive to give the effect of spontaneity , but this can be done only ...
Page xvii
... sure that the point is there and that it is put in such a way that your hearers cannot miss it . Avoid flights of rhetoric and do not lose your anecdotes in a sea of words . Avoid didacticism . Do not try to instruct . Do not give ...
... sure that the point is there and that it is put in such a way that your hearers cannot miss it . Avoid flights of rhetoric and do not lose your anecdotes in a sea of words . Avoid didacticism . Do not try to instruct . Do not give ...
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... sure to leave other men their turns to speak . " But suppose you come 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 ...
... sure to leave other men their turns to speak . " But suppose you come 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 ...
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... bottom of the list , he turned to an unobtrusive young man who had been watching him out of the corner of his eye . " Say , have you seen this show ? " he asked . " Sure , " replied the young man . " TOASTER'S HANDBOOK.
... bottom of the list , he turned to an unobtrusive young man who had been watching him out of the corner of his eye . " Say , have you seen this show ? " he asked . " Sure , " replied the young man . " TOASTER'S HANDBOOK.
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