The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
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His very first broadcast ( January 31 ) took the public's fancy : and when he died , there was , even in those dark days , a general wave of regret , a sighed ' To think that we'll never hear him again ! ' There are — or rather were ...
His very first broadcast ( January 31 ) took the public's fancy : and when he died , there was , even in those dark days , a general wave of regret , a sighed ' To think that we'll never hear him again ! ' There are — or rather were ...
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This story was , if I remember rightly , broadcast at some time in the late 1920's . I can tell it but lamely and briefly : A man had a goldfish , which he regarded with affection and as a companion . One day he took Hildebrand for a ...
This story was , if I remember rightly , broadcast at some time in the late 1920's . I can tell it but lamely and briefly : A man had a goldfish , which he regarded with affection and as a companion . One day he took Hildebrand for a ...
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It lies embedded within ' The Diver ' , broadcast on Christmas Day , 1925 ( ' All this and Alan too ' ) and published in Good Evening , Everyone ! That he should have been invited to deliver so important a broadcast shows how strongly ...
It lies embedded within ' The Diver ' , broadcast on Christmas Day , 1925 ( ' All this and Alan too ' ) and published in Good Evening , Everyone ! That he should have been invited to deliver so important a broadcast shows how strongly ...
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| Title | The ʻshaggy Dogʼ Story: Its Origin, Development, and Nature (with a Few Seemly Examples) |
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Philosophical Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802212794, 9780802212795 |
| Length | 107 pages |
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