Punch, Volume 238Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1960 - English wit and humor |
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... Americans have been complaining that Europeans , above all British observers of the American scene , don't take American politics seriously . These caddish characters ( or so the Americans think ) regard American political life ...
... Americans have been complaining that Europeans , above all British observers of the American scene , don't take American politics seriously . These caddish characters ( or so the Americans think ) regard American political life ...
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... American culture is not even a word that comes readily to his tongue or sits agreeably on his ear . Ask that American instead what he thinks of American civilization or " the American way of life " and he would find the question easier ...
... American culture is not even a word that comes readily to his tongue or sits agreeably on his ear . Ask that American instead what he thinks of American civilization or " the American way of life " and he would find the question easier ...
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... American culture he soon discovers that what is generally celebrated as 100 per cent American turns out to be , particularly in the popular arts , peculiarly the property of one or another minority . It is not just that some of the best ...
... American culture he soon discovers that what is generally celebrated as 100 per cent American turns out to be , particularly in the popular arts , peculiarly the property of one or another minority . It is not just that some of the best ...
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