КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «SPIVVY»
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spivvy в следующих библиографических источниках. Книги, относящиеся к слову
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He had once believed that it was some kind of magic that had helped him get his
scholarship to Spivvy College, and he believed that magic had caused Estelle to
say she loved him and would marry him that day on the dormitory steps right in ...
John L. Cooper, Armin A. Cooper, 2001
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Reluctant Witness: Memoirs from the Last Year of the ...
Spivvy and I rode over in a staff car and the ambulances followed us. The rescue
boat radioed ahead that Taylor was badly burned, but not shot. The other
crewmen, though burned, would make it. We had about a forty minute wait before
the ...
James J. Mahoney, Brian H. Mahoney, 2001
Then we had to go and sit at a table with some boys, who, by English standards,
would have been considered rather spivvy and who weren't very nice. Although
we insisted that we wanted nothing to drink, suddenly a schnapps was thrust in ...
4
May the Farce Be With You
does your Raymond play?' She said:'Howold do you wanthimtoplay?' Brian
explained thatit wasa spivvy character, and she replied:'Oh Raymond can be
spivvy as well!' And that's how Igot the role of Flash Harry on tour,the part played
inthe ...
5
An Englishman a la Campagne: Life in Deepest France
The dictionary says 'spivvy, roguish'. It was a rakish tipple - the kind of word you
can use for wine which costs less than five euros a bottle. If it's more upmarket,
the vocabulary follows suit and you move into the bracket of bouquets, jambes
and ...
6
We're Here to Win the War for You: The US 8th Air Force at War
Spivvy stoppedby myoffice one day and suggested we take a couple ofdays in
London. I preferred Edinburghor nearby Cambridge. I was not too thrilled with
London's V1sand V2s andthe closetsized rooms withwater closetdown thehall we
'd ...
Buthewas found in Spivvy's garden, and we heard what was said
aboutsomebody hanging for somebody.' 'Somebody said Mr Wyck's garden, but
itwasn't. As amatter of fact, I heardhe'dbeen drowned intheRoman Bath. Hewasn't
found in ...
8
Reluctant Witness: Memoirs from the Last Year of the ...
19. Spivvy. Captain Seymour E. Spivak, M.D., had been with us since early anti
submarine days. He was an Elizabeth N.J. native, wentto Rutgers and did his
medical schooling, internship, and residency inNew York City. Early in the war,
Uncle ...
Brian Mahoney,James Mahoney,Robin Olds, 2005
9
The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel
Orange Prize winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.
“Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” ...
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «SPIVVY»
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spivvy в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
SIMON WATKINS: No excuses just pay up on time
The cheque is in the post,' used to be the cry of every spivvy operator trying to delay their bills. These days many large companies don't even feel the need to ... «This is Money, Июл 15»
Tory donors blow £410k on photos of ministers! By SEBASTIAN …
Mindful that last time they were portrayed as a bunch of performing seals in hock to spivvy billionaires, the Conservative movers and shakers did their best to ... «Daily Mail, Июл 15»
NSW uses Open Data to name and shame shonky businesses
... Mr Dominello is clearly sick of footing the bill for spivvy sales tactics and defective products and services — so he's spending up on sunlight as a disinfectant. «Government News, Май 15»
Conrad Black: Newspapers must fight back
... little but invested in quality and took the top off the traditional ultra-desirable Times readership disgusted with Rupert's pandering to the spivvy and the shallow. «National Post, Май 15»
The Apprentice 2014 review, week eight: 'James Hill is the most …
Never brown in town, goes the saying, to which we might supply the sartorial counterweight: never wear your spivvy Apprentice suit in the country with a pair of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Ноя 14»
Prufrock: Fuel cell backers blow their fuses
“It's complete madness,” says one irate shareholder. “This company is doing breakthrough green technology and it just looks spivvy.” AFC has a big project in ... «The Sunday Times, Окт 14»
Opera review: The Turk in Italy (Opera Australia)
She is well matched in the love game by Paolo Bordogna's spivvy rocker of a Pasha complete with mirror shades, medallion and gold lamé hotpants. This gifted ... «Limelight Magazine, Янв 14»
Jim Armitage: Sports Direct revives its spivvy image
Sports Direct, which fought so hard to shake off the spivvy image it had when Mr Ashley first brought it to the market, had been starting to behave itself like a real ... «The Independent, Янв 14»
Mike Ashley stuns investors with 'spivvy' Debenhams deal
Shareholders in Sports Direct were left stunned yesterday, with one investor labelling the chairman weak, after it dumped a stake in Debenhams bought just ... «The Times, Янв 14»
Nick Cave is still raising hell
Sharp-suited and spivvy, Nick Cave howled and crooned his way through songs of death, sex, savagery and deviancy interspersed with love ballads of exquisite ... «Spectator.co.uk, Окт 13»
