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Lewis Copeland (1)

Autor(a) de The World's Great Speeches

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5 Works 707 Membros 5 Críticas

Obras por Lewis Copeland

The World's Great Speeches (1942) 503 exemplares
10,000 Jokes, Toasts & Stories (1939) 151 exemplares
Popular Quotations for All Uses (1942) 32 exemplares
The World's Best Jokes (1936) 17 exemplares

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laplantelibrary | 3 outras críticas | Mar 15, 2022 |
Over 95% of the 293 speeches were of interest.
 
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KENNERLYDAN | 3 outras críticas | Jul 11, 2021 |
The Introduction by Frank Allen suggests that the origin of jokes lies in antediluvian obscurity. "The cave-man no doubt asked of his neighbor: Who was that lady I seen you with last night?"

And "What may be a chestnut to some is a pippin to others."

This is a collection of amusing "stories"--jokes, retorts, epitaphs, epigrams, verses, toasts, "little willies", boners, limericks, comic verse, nonsense poems, parodies, college rhymes, Negro dialect, Western dialect, Irish and other verse, all Indexed by Types and Subjects - Amiguity, Anomalies, Boasts, Bridge, Bulls, Chicanery, etc.

And yes, this wealth of "period pieces" is racist, sexist, and often not amusing. It is revealing.

"The minister was addressing a Sunday School class. He had taken for his theme the familiar one of the children who mocked Elisha on his journey to Bethel--how youngsters taunted the poor old prophet and how they were punished when two she-bears came out of the wild and ate forty-and-two of them.
"And now children," said the pastor, wishing to discover whether his talk had produced any moral effect, "what does this story show?"
"Please sir," came from a little girl well down in the front, "it shows how many children two she-bears can hold". [215]
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keylawk | Jan 8, 2014 |
A really renmarkably wide-ranging selection, including not only Pericles but Deomsthenes and Isocrates, Cato, Hannibal, etc many French Revolution, Risorgimento, , all sides in wWI, Russian Revolution, British 129th century , American New Deal, QWorld War II (including Konoye, Mussolini, Chiang Kai-Shek etc, etc.
 
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antiquary | 3 outras críticas | Sep 11, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
5
Membros
707
Popularidade
#35,840
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
5
ISBN
11

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