Modes and MoralsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 276 psl. |
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... mean — as we have some- times fatuously taken it to mean that they are less civilized than we . It means only that per- sonal service has been , with them , cheaper and more a matter of course . Where prosperous Americans multiply ...
... mean — as we have some- times fatuously taken it to mean that they are less civilized than we . It means only that per- sonal service has been , with them , cheaper and more a matter of course . Where prosperous Americans multiply ...
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... means strange that well - to - do Europeans have been content to be supremely waited upon , instead of making practical tasks mechanically easier for them- selves . The goddess of the labor - saving inven- tion is the woman who does all ...
... means strange that well - to - do Europeans have been content to be supremely waited upon , instead of making practical tasks mechanically easier for them- selves . The goddess of the labor - saving inven- tion is the woman who does all ...
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... means more ser- vice . If you have your meals in the " living- room , " you dispense with so much floor - and- wall space to be gone over . In only that sense is it absurd . For most of us will agree that while English lodgings are all ...
... means more ser- vice . If you have your meals in the " living- room , " you dispense with so much floor - and- wall space to be gone over . In only that sense is it absurd . For most of us will agree that while English lodgings are all ...
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... mean political ) independence was a kind of protective coloring . The enforced sim- plicity of the pioneer scene bred in us a distaste for being waited on too importunately . Because we had to do certain things for ourselves , we ...
... mean political ) independence was a kind of protective coloring . The enforced sim- plicity of the pioneer scene bred in us a distaste for being waited on too importunately . Because we had to do certain things for ourselves , we ...
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... mean that ; it is overpaid , and I will explain what I mean pres- ently ) , has lost its head . It probably believes the things the politicians and its own leaders have been saying to it . It will work , and con- sider itself patriotic ...
... mean that ; it is overpaid , and I will explain what I mean pres- ently ) , has lost its head . It probably believes the things the politicians and its own leaders have been saying to it . It will work , and con- sider itself patriotic ...
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Modes and Morals– By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (Inhalt: The New ... Katharine Fullerton Gerould Visos knygos peržiūra - 1920 |
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