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... Blimps , and the other and left - wing intelli- gentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites the half - pay colonel with his bull neck and diminutive brain , like a dinosaur , the highbrow with his domed forehead and ...
... Blimps , and the other and left - wing intelli- gentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites the half - pay colonel with his bull neck and diminutive brain , like a dinosaur , the highbrow with his domed forehead and ...
Page 39
... 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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... Blimps , sapping away at middle - class morale , but still keeping their favoured position as hangers - on of the dividend - drawers . Labour Party politics had become a variant of Conservatism , " revolutionary " politics had become a ...
... Blimps , sapping away at middle - class morale , but still keeping their favoured position as hangers - on of the dividend - drawers . Labour Party politics had become a variant of Conservatism , " revolutionary " politics had become a ...
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