Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams |
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Page x
... dinner speaker gets a hearing ; the hostess saves her guests from boredom . Such a large place does the " story " hold in our national life that we have invented a social pastime that might be termed a “ joke match . ” “ Don't tell a ...
... dinner speaker gets a hearing ; the hostess saves her guests from boredom . Such a large place does the " story " hold in our national life that we have invented a social pastime that might be termed a “ joke match . ” “ Don't tell a ...
Page xiii
... dinner talk , or address is always given under con- ditions that require abounding good humor , and the desire to make everybody pleased and comfortable as well as to furnish entertainment should be uppermost . Perhaps a consideration ...
... dinner talk , or address is always given under con- ditions that require abounding good humor , and the desire to make everybody pleased and comfortable as well as to furnish entertainment should be uppermost . Perhaps a consideration ...
Page xiv
... dinner speakers have learned the need of careful forethought . A practised speaker may appear to speak extemporaneously by putting together on one occasion thoughts and expressions previously prepared for other occasions , but the ...
... dinner speakers have learned the need of careful forethought . A practised speaker may appear to speak extemporaneously by putting together on one occasion thoughts and expressions previously prepared for other occasions , but the ...
Page xv
... dinner speaking are coming to be more and more in demand at social functions - the college world . Here the young man or woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner ...
... dinner speaking are coming to be more and more in demand at social functions - the college world . Here the young man or woman , coming from a country town where the formal banquet is unknown , who has never heard an after - dinner ...
Page xvi
... dinner speech is a distinct form of expression , just as is the short story . As such it should give a unity of impres- sion . It bears something of the same relation to the oration that the short story does to the novel . Let it have ...
... dinner speech is a distinct form of expression , just as is the short story . As such it should give a unity of impres- sion . It bears something of the same relation to the oration that the short story does to the novel . Let it have ...
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