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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... give - away shows descended on the carcass of radio . Like buzzarrds the give - away shows , if left to pursue their scavenging devices , will leave nothing but the picked bones of the last listener lying before his radio set . Radio ...
... give - away shows descended on the carcass of radio . Like buzzarrds the give - away shows , if left to pursue their scavenging devices , will leave nothing but the picked bones of the last listener lying before his radio set . Radio ...
Page 949
... give her a look that you could have poured on a waffle . SINCLAIR LEWIS God give me unclouded eyes and freedom from haste . God give me a quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack ...
... give her a look that you could have poured on a waffle . SINCLAIR LEWIS God give me unclouded eyes and freedom from haste . God give me a quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack ...
Page 1057
... give a damn , 240 Free Soil , 352 Free trade and seamen's rights , 423 Free trade in ideas , 155 From A Sandwich To ... Give all to love , 556 Give me liberty , 368 Give me your tired , your poor , 582 Give my regards to Broadway ...
... give a damn , 240 Free Soil , 352 Free trade and seamen's rights , 423 Free trade in ideas , 155 From A Sandwich To ... Give all to love , 556 Give me liberty , 368 Give me your tired , your poor , 582 Give my regards to Broadway ...
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