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Page 44
... Blimps , and the other the left- wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites — the ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific ...
... Blimps , and the other the left- wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites — the ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific ...
Page 49
... 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 ...
Page 94
... defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people . The left - wing intelligentsia wanted to go on and on , sniggering at the Blimps , sapping away at middle - class morale , but still 94 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
... defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people . The left - wing intelligentsia wanted to go on and on , sniggering at the Blimps , sapping away at middle - class morale , but still 94 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
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