Punch, Volume 229Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1955 - English wit and humor |
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Page 470
... whole hog : not a word of liking for anything since Churchill , a useful position for a satirist . The story takes place in 1999 and the stock - in - trade of science and social- science fiction makes its usual effective appearance . I ...
... whole hog : not a word of liking for anything since Churchill , a useful position for a satirist . The story takes place in 1999 and the stock - in - trade of science and social- science fiction makes its usual effective appearance . I ...
Page 528
... whole truth ; but it was usually the kind of truth that would have been invisible to a man who was a critic or biographer in the ordinary sense of the term . He lived detached from a good many things , including what we call " The ...
... whole truth ; but it was usually the kind of truth that would have been invisible to a man who was a critic or biographer in the ordinary sense of the term . He lived detached from a good many things , including what we call " The ...
Page 613
... whole thing is artificial : in the last analysis it is a perfectly trivial comedy ; but the decorative incident and detail and flashes of character are so beautifully done that as a whole it is satisfying as well as entertaining . Every ...
... whole thing is artificial : in the last analysis it is a perfectly trivial comedy ; but the decorative incident and detail and flashes of character are so beautifully done that as a whole it is satisfying as well as entertaining . Every ...
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