Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a Book of Discovery, Volumen10Dodd, Mead, 1935 - 268 páginas |
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... told that the famous , or infamous , Lord Braxfield , in sentencing a prisoner to death , said , " You're a very clever chiel , man , but ye wad be none the war of a hanging . " Still more brutal and pitiless is a remark attributed to ...
... told that the famous , or infamous , Lord Braxfield , in sentencing a prisoner to death , said , " You're a very clever chiel , man , but ye wad be none the war of a hanging . " Still more brutal and pitiless is a remark attributed to ...
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... told one another very funny stories - there being no ladies present - but they didn't write them down . When they took up their pens they were dreary enough ; the nearest they could get to fun was a Latin ana- gram or acrostic , or some ...
... told one another very funny stories - there being no ladies present - but they didn't write them down . When they took up their pens they were dreary enough ; the nearest they could get to fun was a Latin ana- gram or acrostic , or some ...
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... ease that have never been surpassed . " Quite so . In other words he told dirty stories well . So did Abraham Lincoln . He lived in a dirty age of a filth and indecency not known to us now , 230 HUMOR : ITS THEORY AND TECHNIQUE.
... ease that have never been surpassed . " Quite so . In other words he told dirty stories well . So did Abraham Lincoln . He lived in a dirty age of a filth and indecency not known to us now , 230 HUMOR : ITS THEORY AND TECHNIQUE.
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Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples; a ..., Volumen10 Stephen Leacock Vista de fragmentos - 1935 |
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