10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOPLOFTINESS»
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toploftiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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That week the postman rang and rang, and I paid off my terrible small debts,
bought a suit, and woke up every morning with a world of ineffable toploftiness
and promise. While I waited for the novel to appear, the metamorphosis of
amateur into ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, 2009
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Escape into a labyrinth: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catholic ...
Chapter VI A WORLD OF INEFFABLE TOPLOFTINESS AND PROMISE On
September l6, l9l9, Fitzgerald received a special delivery letter from Max Perkins
stating that Scribner's was "all for" publishing This Side of Paradise. The
delighted ...
Mr Holystone, she privately considered, wasfar more gentlemanly than Captain
Hughes, and it would do the latter no harm at all to havehis toploftiness reduced.
The captain was due to be further vexed. Justbefore dinner Silver Taffy cameto ...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir
He must have got his toploftiness about money at Yale, where, without a bean,
pushing a broom, waiting table, tutoring, he had made his name and fame among
the best-padded young men in the land. Somewhere, somehow he had learned ...
Milton Sanford Mayer, John Harland Hicks, 1993
... before we can enjoy the freedom — I love the word F. Scott Fitzgerald used for
being flush: “toploftiness” — that comes from being able to spend without worry. I
can look the part. We both do. Especially Eliza. Our neighborhood, Clinton Hill, ...
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Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol.: Since 1877
The rhetoric of Fiske and Strong is not our rhetoric, no doubt, but toploftiness is
not imperialism. Given the world of the 1880s, there seems nothing very
tendentious in their formulations. The basic idea, indeed, would shortly prove
persuasive ...
Gerald N. Grob, George Athan Billias, 2010
... TOPKNOT TOPKNOTS TOPLESS TOPLESSNESS TOPLESSNESSES
TOPLINE TOPLINES TOPLOFTICAL TOPLOFTIER TOPLOFTIEST TOPLOFTILY
TOPLOFTINESS TOPLOFTINESSES TOPLOFTY TOPMAST TOPMASTS
TOPMINNOW ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
At the beginning of his career he saw himself entering a world of "ineffable
toploftiness and promise," and he himself having "a sense of infinite possibilities
that was always with me whether vanity or shame was my mood." Not to have that
...
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The Life that Ruth Built: A Biography
There is nothing at all to show that Ruth was reluctant to make the sacrifice or the
hit-and-run play. Nor was his inability to remember the names of players a mark
of toploftiness. He knew who they were but did not bother to clutter his memory ...
The students in the other colleges, echoing their professors, regarded the Ag
students with some toploftiness. Russell Lord '20 remembers: An unremitting
chorus of derision for the "Cow College" from without strengthened this student
group ...
