Punch, Volume 290Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1986 - English wit and humor |
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Page 13
And nobody suffers more than the social half-caste: a rising young BBC chap,
quick of wit and rich in crunchy contacts, was recently seen to be struck silent,
stripped of confidence in seconds by a barbed lady critic he had tried to annoy.
And nobody suffers more than the social half-caste: a rising young BBC chap,
quick of wit and rich in crunchy contacts, was recently seen to be struck silent,
stripped of confidence in seconds by a barbed lady critic he had tried to annoy.
Page 64
He is one of half a dozen limpetlike vignerons clinging to Les Alpilles. After the
lousy phylloxera bug, that scourge of nineteenth- century vineyards, had wiped
out 25 centuries of vine-growing in this part of France, many farmers round about
...
He is one of half a dozen limpetlike vignerons clinging to Les Alpilles. After the
lousy phylloxera bug, that scourge of nineteenth- century vineyards, had wiped
out 25 centuries of vine-growing in this part of France, many farmers round about
...
Page 54
But one man's tripe is apparently another's hot dinner, for there are quite a few
flourishing businesses combining warehouse and shop under one barn-like roof,
with a clutter of half-empty cartons carefully strewn about to give the impression ...
But one man's tripe is apparently another's hot dinner, for there are quite a few
flourishing businesses combining warehouse and shop under one barn-like roof,
with a clutter of half-empty cartons carefully strewn about to give the impression ...
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| Title | Punch, Volume 290 |
| Editors | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman |
| Publisher | Punch Publications Limited, 1986 |
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