Punch, Volume 234Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1958 - English wit and humor |
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Page 84
... told me the Britannia was a swell ship , he'd seen us touch down . I told him that Idlewild was a swell airport , especially the echoing galleries where we were waiting for our bus , with plate - glass doors opening on a magic ray ...
... told me the Britannia was a swell ship , he'd seen us touch down . I told him that Idlewild was a swell airport , especially the echoing galleries where we were waiting for our bus , with plate - glass doors opening on a magic ray ...
Page 144
... told him . " Spit them tacks out before you speak to me , boy . " " Day off to - day then ? " he said , putting a finger clean through where I'd showed him and tut - tutting . " Spot of redundancy . Nothing to worry , though . They'll ...
... told him . " Spit them tacks out before you speak to me , boy . " " Day off to - day then ? " he said , putting a finger clean through where I'd showed him and tut - tutting . " Spot of redundancy . Nothing to worry , though . They'll ...
Page 156
... told Morley to sing when he would normally speak . Morley had a tenor voice of fair range and plangency and he carried the tactic suggested by Silcox to extreme " No need to get huffy ! I only said ' I don't like to see young girls ...
... told Morley to sing when he would normally speak . Morley had a tenor voice of fair range and plangency and he carried the tactic suggested by Silcox to extreme " No need to get huffy ! I only said ' I don't like to see young girls ...
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