Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 251, Issue 1517William Blackwood, 1942 |
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Page 167
... club are few enough as yet to be able to meet in а tobacconist's upstairs parlour without any sense of overcrowding ; yet I sometimes fancy that our Three Pipes Club has a future , that it may outlive the war - time conditions which ...
... club are few enough as yet to be able to meet in а tobacconist's upstairs parlour without any sense of overcrowding ; yet I sometimes fancy that our Three Pipes Club has a future , that it may outlive the war - time conditions which ...
Page 169
... club , and he proposed that we should regard ourselves as an established club from that time forth . Whereupon Mallaby suggested for us the name of the Three Pipes Club , a designation which was promptly adopted . The signifi- cance of ...
... club , and he proposed that we should regard ourselves as an established club from that time forth . Whereupon Mallaby suggested for us the name of the Three Pipes Club , a designation which was promptly adopted . The signifi- cance of ...
Page 176
... Club slipped away into the black - out . - And thus it came about that all my knowledge of the evening's performance was obtained at second hand from Biddy , who scolded me mildly for my absence when she came home . But we had spent so ...
... Club slipped away into the black - out . - And thus it came about that all my knowledge of the evening's performance was obtained at second hand from Biddy , who scolded me mildly for my absence when she came home . But we had spent so ...
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