Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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... fashionable and beautiful people scrambled for the cachet of a residence designed by Mizner , in spite of practical drawbacks . Carried away by the aesthetics of architecture , Mizner once forgot to put a staircase between the first and ...
... fashionable and beautiful people scrambled for the cachet of a residence designed by Mizner , in spite of practical drawbacks . Carried away by the aesthetics of architecture , Mizner once forgot to put a staircase between the first and ...
Pagina 111
... fashionable abuse , implying snobbery and selfishness . Élite has become involved in the British class system . All it means is a selected or chosen group . It makes sense to select the best when you are picking a football team or a ...
... fashionable abuse , implying snobbery and selfishness . Élite has become involved in the British class system . All it means is a selected or chosen group . It makes sense to select the best when you are picking a football team or a ...
Pagina 117
... fashionable historical misquotation comes in the famous speech in which Queen Elizabeth I described herself as ' mere English ' . What she meant was ' complete and undiluted English ' . There was nothing dismissive about that ' mere ...
... fashionable historical misquotation comes in the famous speech in which Queen Elizabeth I described herself as ' mere English ' . What she meant was ' complete and undiluted English ' . There was nothing dismissive about that ' mere ...
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