Digest: Review of Reviews Incorporating The Literary Digest, Volume 88Funk and Wagnalls, 1926 |
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... young officers of the Army Air Service whose ideals he has shattered and whose loyalty he has corrupted " ; and " in the name of the American people whose fears he has played upon , whose hysteria he has fomented , and whose confidence ...
... young officers of the Army Air Service whose ideals he has shattered and whose loyalty he has corrupted " ; and " in the name of the American people whose fears he has played upon , whose hysteria he has fomented , and whose confidence ...
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... YOUNG Bob La Follette is proving that he is a chip of the old bloc . - Life . FRENCH is the universal language , but it isn't the one money talks . - Sacramento Bee . Ir doesn't take much of a car , at that , to last some drivers a ...
... YOUNG Bob La Follette is proving that he is a chip of the old bloc . - Life . FRENCH is the universal language , but it isn't the one money talks . - Sacramento Bee . Ir doesn't take much of a car , at that , to last some drivers a ...
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... young ones are described as the product of the war and lacking stability and experience . Meanwhile we read in a Paris dispatch to the New York Times , that the Echo du Nord of Lille pub- lishes an open letter to Clemenceau , asking him ...
... young ones are described as the product of the war and lacking stability and experience . Meanwhile we read in a Paris dispatch to the New York Times , that the Echo du Nord of Lille pub- lishes an open letter to Clemenceau , asking him ...
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... young . To the young they are , of course , all novelty , " the very latest . " The play spirit , which the young have vainly sought in the newer forms , has been Mellie's playing to - day was in surroundings such as he had never seen ...
... young . To the young they are , of course , all novelty , " the very latest . " The play spirit , which the young have vainly sought in the newer forms , has been Mellie's playing to - day was in surroundings such as he had never seen ...
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... young people . It lets ' em loaf too much . They ought to be kept movin ' -you know what I mean . Harry Lauder's got ... young people do not have as good a time as young folks did in the old days . In the era of " kitchen whangs ...
... young people . It lets ' em loaf too much . They ought to be kept movin ' -you know what I mean . Harry Lauder's got ... young people do not have as good a time as young folks did in the old days . In the era of " kitchen whangs ...
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