 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 pàgines
...sympathies of the reader, for it serves to illustrate very plainly the truth of the familiar saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES, by Miss Anna Catharine Greene, from the press of Messrs. GP Putnam's Sons, New... | |
 | 1922 - 914 pàgines
...call a man who runs an automobile?" "It depends on how near he comes to hitting me." — Houston Post. One half of the world does not know how the other half brews. — Indianapolis News. "Trotter seems to be kept pretty busy by that second-hand car he bought... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1882 - 494 pàgines
...whether there may not be for such scenery fit actors and appropriate dramas 1 It has been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; an ignorance, by the way, which Boz has essentially helped to enlighten ; it is quite as certain... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1882 - 146 pàgines
...whose very existence only a vague and uncertain idea previously had been formed. How true it is that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ! Suppose, then, as it is a matter of curious philosophical interest, that we take a few steps back... | |
 | Church extension assoc - 400 pàgines
...week. Is it possible? we hear some of our readers say. ' Possible,' and, alas ! ' true.' Certainly one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. But how does she manage? In this way. She receives a weekly allowance of ^ cwt. of coals, a quartern... | |
 | Cordelia J. Hawksley - 1882 - 78 pàgines
...laughing, ' you will have to learn, as I have learnt since Miss Rains came to us, the truth of the adage, " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives." Why, there are nearly one thousand GFS members already among the London factory girls !' ' Yes,' said... | |
 | Laura L. Pratt - 1882 - 180 pàgines
...knowing that his wife was one of the best-dressed women in the room. It has been very truly said " that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." Mr. and Mrs. Percy Burton never gave a thought as to what became of their coachman after he had put... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1883 - 946 pàgines
...guidance and protection. Taken generally, the locality affords a practical illustration of the saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. It lies well inland in that half world situated on Poverty's side of the social gulf, and the supposed... | |
 | 1983 - 840 pàgines
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one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 
