ThorofareHarcourt, Brace, 1942 - 469 pages "An English boy adapts to American life in a Maryland prep school." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation. |
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... amuse him that Keats and Wordsworth should be " taught " by young American instructors who would be helpless to ... amusing himself with cards or dominoes or the old bone counters his ears were quick enough for casual remarks overheard ...
... amuse him that Keats and Wordsworth should be " taught " by young American instructors who would be helpless to ... amusing himself with cards or dominoes or the old bone counters his ears were quick enough for casual remarks overheard ...
Page 225
... amused to see Dan as a " family man " as he calls it . He says that as a solitary student living in lodg- ings he had no idea life could be so complicated . He asks me , " Did these weird things always happen or is it just some fa ...
... amused to see Dan as a " family man " as he calls it . He says that as a solitary student living in lodg- ings he had no idea life could be so complicated . He asks me , " Did these weird things always happen or is it just some fa ...
Page 349
Christopher Morley. very amusing , there were two men on a wagon dressed up like colored people . They had washing powder they invented from the soothing balm of nature's forests and ... amuse Buster ) synchronized in cadence . " All abo 349.
Christopher Morley. very amusing , there were two men on a wagon dressed up like colored people . They had washing powder they invented from the soothing balm of nature's forests and ... amuse Buster ) synchronized in cadence . " All abo 349.
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