Punch, Volume 229Punch Publications Limited, 1955 |
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Page 686
... thing to suit the views of the manager , the manager's wife , the principal backer and the principal backer's son Harold , an intelligent boy of fourteen on whose judgment the principal backer placed great reliance . He was fed up too ...
... thing to suit the views of the manager , the manager's wife , the principal backer and the principal backer's son Harold , an intelligent boy of fourteen on whose judgment the principal backer placed great reliance . He was fed up too ...
Page 692
... thing as Christmas you got some people doing the wrong thing on December 25. The ancient Angles called it Mothers ' Day , which seems harmless enough , but it transpires that it was something rather different from Mothers ' Day as prac ...
... thing as Christmas you got some people doing the wrong thing on December 25. The ancient Angles called it Mothers ' Day , which seems harmless enough , but it transpires that it was something rather different from Mothers ' Day as prac ...
Page 708
... thing . We did some of the finest singing heard in France . Our best item was that soldiers ' chorus from Faust , and we took the paint off the woodwork with the heat we put into the words about " And ready to fight , and ready to die ...
... thing . We did some of the finest singing heard in France . Our best item was that soldiers ' chorus from Faust , and we took the paint off the woodwork with the heat we put into the words about " And ready to fight , and ready to die ...
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