Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - Всего страниц: 230 MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... Germans we saw in the highly propagandistic movies of the war years were scary but not very real . They were sadistic and bad ... German pilot's feet and hands had worn the metal shiny , putting my thumb on the button that fired the wing ...
... Germans we saw in the highly propagandistic movies of the war years were scary but not very real . They were sadistic and bad ... German pilot's feet and hands had worn the metal shiny , putting my thumb on the button that fired the wing ...
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... German Rauch ( Rauchen verboten - no smoking ) . Burns and Scott use reek , and reeky , a lot for smoking fires and chimney corners . Reek suggests rank , also meaning an offensively strong smell , as when Claudius , aware that Hamlet ...
... German Rauch ( Rauchen verboten - no smoking ) . Burns and Scott use reek , and reeky , a lot for smoking fires and chimney corners . Reek suggests rank , also meaning an offensively strong smell , as when Claudius , aware that Hamlet ...
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... German . Permitted to escape from Latin , I was allowed two years of German instead . The instructor was a comely woman , la Señora Pardo de Zela , the wife of an Argentine diplomat . Pretty , perfumed , thirty - five or so , blond hair ...
... German . Permitted to escape from Latin , I was allowed two years of German instead . The instructor was a comely woman , la Señora Pardo de Zela , the wife of an Argentine diplomat . Pretty , perfumed , thirty - five or so , blond hair ...
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