Punch, Volume 286Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1984 - English wit and humor |
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... English country houses and cottages , has scarcely changed for a couple of centuries . One pictures an underlying simplicity and an air of understatement . Really it's not in the English nature to swank and we tend not to over ...
... English country houses and cottages , has scarcely changed for a couple of centuries . One pictures an underlying simplicity and an air of understatement . Really it's not in the English nature to swank and we tend not to over ...
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... ENGLISH " wine is British because it may be -- and some is grown in Wales . , British " wine " is only to some small extent English , and is not wine . One of the more acceptable pro- visions of the much - loved Mr Law- son's budget ...
... ENGLISH " wine is British because it may be -- and some is grown in Wales . , British " wine " is only to some small extent English , and is not wine . One of the more acceptable pro- visions of the much - loved Mr Law- son's budget ...
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... English . ( The printers who could read English would not print it for fear of falling foul of the law . ) Anoth- er problem , however , came earlier . This was simply getting the manu- script typed . Female typists refused to do it ...
... English . ( The printers who could read English would not print it for fear of falling foul of the law . ) Anoth- er problem , however , came earlier . This was simply getting the manu- script typed . Female typists refused to do it ...
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