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... Blimps , and the other the left - wing intelli- gentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific lowbrow ...
... Blimps , and the other the left - wing intelli- gentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific lowbrow ...
Page 64
... Blimp - baiting affected even the Blimps themselves and made it harder than it had been before to get intelligent young men to enter the armed forces . Given the stagnation of the Empire the military middle class must have decayed in ...
... Blimp - baiting affected even the Blimps themselves and made it harder than it had been before to get intelligent young men to enter the armed forces . Given the stagnation of the Empire the military middle class must have decayed in ...
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... Blimp - ridden than before . Moreover , if England were overrun by foreign troops the English people would know that they had been beaten and would continue the struggle . It is doubtful whether they could be held down permanently , or ...
... Blimp - ridden than before . Moreover , if England were overrun by foreign troops the English people would know that they had been beaten and would continue the struggle . It is doubtful whether they could be held down permanently , or ...
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