Punch, Volume 239Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1960 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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Page 33
... writing is by the youngest contributors , Maurice Kennedy and John Montague . South Africa is another country with a disastrous history . There is a belief that social stress breeds good writing . Actually , writers seem to do best in ...
... writing is by the youngest contributors , Maurice Kennedy and John Montague . South Africa is another country with a disastrous history . There is a belief that social stress breeds good writing . Actually , writers seem to do best in ...
Page 117
... writing like that nowadays * . They care not a fig whether the universe they present to us is comprehensible or not , so long as it keeps changing . At a time when new discoveries of the most shattering kind are made almost daily in ...
... writing like that nowadays * . They care not a fig whether the universe they present to us is comprehensible or not , so long as it keeps changing . At a time when new discoveries of the most shattering kind are made almost daily in ...
Page 321
... writing is inclined to be wordy and a little larger than life ; he inflicts pages of leaden erudi- tion on his readers , but with his tongue in his cheek is quite good company . The translation isn't helped by that terrible word ...
... writing is inclined to be wordy and a little larger than life ; he inflicts pages of leaden erudi- tion on his readers , but with his tongue in his cheek is quite good company . The translation isn't helped by that terrible word ...
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