Punch, Volume 240Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1961 - English wit and humor |
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... English beards went , it was Grace et praeterea nihil . Yet there were in those days beards on English cricket pitches . Beards on a general scale came in with the Australians . Take the formidable Australian team of 1884. Bannerman ...
... English beards went , it was Grace et praeterea nihil . Yet there were in those days beards on English cricket pitches . Beards on a general scale came in with the Australians . Take the formidable Australian team of 1884. Bannerman ...
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... English speech , which will have them really baffled in the Middle West . Yet these English scenes are the best part of the picture . Harry Andrews is very good as the cold - hearted C.O. who chooses the young man for the assignment and ...
... English speech , which will have them really baffled in the Middle West . Yet these English scenes are the best part of the picture . Harry Andrews is very good as the cold - hearted C.O. who chooses the young man for the assignment and ...
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... English . The double - barrelled word is , I think , found in no other languages with quite the same silly lack of meaning . ( In Malay it is simply a plural : " mata- mata " - " eyes , eyes " -in other words The Police . ) But any English ...
... English . The double - barrelled word is , I think , found in no other languages with quite the same silly lack of meaning . ( In Malay it is simply a plural : " mata- mata " - " eyes , eyes " -in other words The Police . ) But any English ...
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