The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... York's slum districts after the Civil War WILSON MIZNER , sign in the Hotel Rand , New York , 1907 , which he managed In dress , habits , manners , provincialism , routine and narrowness , he ac- quired that charming insolence , that ...
... York's slum districts after the Civil War WILSON MIZNER , sign in the Hotel Rand , New York , 1907 , which he managed In dress , habits , manners , provincialism , routine and narrowness , he ac- quired that charming insolence , that ...
Page 136
... York City , on the final show- ing . New York's eight millions are by far the largest urban group in which democracy has ever operated . That is why people who want to under- stand democracy should spend less time in the library and ...
... York City , on the final show- ing . New York's eight millions are by far the largest urban group in which democracy has ever operated . That is why people who want to under- stand democracy should spend less time in the library and ...
Page 268
... York's part o ' the innin ' Doyle cracked one and Ike run back a mile and a half and caught it with one hand . We was all sayin ' what a whale of a play it was , but he had to apologize just the same as for gettin ' struck out . " That ...
... York's part o ' the innin ' Doyle cracked one and Ike run back a mile and a half and caught it with one hand . We was all sayin ' what a whale of a play it was , but he had to apologize just the same as for gettin ' struck out . " That ...
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IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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