A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 165
... English who looked ' so stiff in the joints ' . The Australians played a beautiful game . They were like Wagner's ... English , both spoken and written , was not , so far , as expressive , as rich , as lyrical as American English or ...
... English who looked ' so stiff in the joints ' . The Australians played a beautiful game . They were like Wagner's ... English , both spoken and written , was not , so far , as expressive , as rich , as lyrical as American English or ...
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Charles Manning Hope Clark. the Australians because the English bowling tactics had beaten their best batsmen . That , the English believed , was the point : the English had won , and the Australians did not like it . The Australians ...
Charles Manning Hope Clark. the Australians because the English bowling tactics had beaten their best batsmen . That , the English believed , was the point : the English had won , and the Australians did not like it . The Australians ...
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... English poetry . Gifted young men and women heard that to be English , unattainable though it was for an Australian , was the true goal of human as- pirations . 34 Prince Charming continued to say all the right things . At the State ...
... English poetry . Gifted young men and women heard that to be English , unattainable though it was for an Australian , was the true goal of human as- pirations . 34 Prince Charming continued to say all the right things . At the State ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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