Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
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... Downstairs we greet the grocery boy , argue with the plumber , hire and fire the cook , dodge subscribing for ... Downstairs is the clamorous telephone ; upstairs is the restful favorite pipe . " Downstairs , " writes the urbane Abbé ...
... Downstairs we greet the grocery boy , argue with the plumber , hire and fire the cook , dodge subscribing for ... Downstairs is the clamorous telephone ; upstairs is the restful favorite pipe . " Downstairs , " writes the urbane Abbé ...
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... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
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