Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... offered one for pneumonia as well . This being new to him , he asked when he would need another jab . The nurse told him , ' Oh , you won't . They last about ten years . ' * Then lo ! the sainted MONITOR is born , Whose pious face some ...
... offered one for pneumonia as well . This being new to him , he asked when he would need another jab . The nurse told him , ' Oh , you won't . They last about ten years . ' * Then lo ! the sainted MONITOR is born , Whose pious face some ...
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... offered ' Calvary twill trousers ' . When Vernon Scannell gave a reading at a posh girls ' school in Malvern , one of his poems made reference to Golgotha . None of them had heard of it , so he suggested that they might recognize it in ...
... offered ' Calvary twill trousers ' . When Vernon Scannell gave a reading at a posh girls ' school in Malvern , one of his poems made reference to Golgotha . None of them had heard of it , so he suggested that they might recognize it in ...
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... Cambridge , one of the best writers around , a great inventor , a celebrated surgeon , a senior politician ( not that he thinks much of politicians ) . - He must be offered a peerage ( which naturally 100 D. J. ENRIGHT.
... Cambridge , one of the best writers around , a great inventor , a celebrated surgeon , a senior politician ( not that he thinks much of politicians ) . - He must be offered a peerage ( which naturally 100 D. J. ENRIGHT.
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