Metropolitan Life

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A witty, sometimes curmudgeonly, often helpful look at various fads, crazes, morals, fashions, and mores in America today ranges from comments on good weather to a pontifical guide for the truly ambitious. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Instructions to medical examiners of the Metropolitan LIfe Insurance Company. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands (U.

On a separate note, Fran Lebowitz could have been an excellent and a very memorable guest star on either Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm! I got the audiobook version (the publisher combined this and Social Studiesto make The Fran Lebowitz Reader). Jacket is not clipped but has tiny chips and small closed tears along edges, with crease on bottom of front flap.A crisp clean mass market paperback, appearing as new without creasing of any kind but presenting light shelf and edge wear, minor chipping to edges of card covers - a common condition of any mass market. Fran Lebowitz's earlier works within this book are decent, but it peels away to weaker texts later on.

While obviously dated, these comic essays / standup routines from 70s icon Lebowitz were still capable of eliciting a robust laugh or two. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; its history, its present position in the insurance world, its home office building and its work carried on therein. It’s really cool to read about a long gone era of New York, but at the same time, boy are most of these essays dated! And one might think that maybe the comments would not be very important nowadays, the situations and examples that Fran provides are still a living thing today.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: An epoch in life insurance, a third of a century of achievement; thirty-three years of administration of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. While there are a number of fine one liners, one would be better served to patiently await a future edition of Bartlett's than wading through Metropolitan Life.

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This has some extremely dated references, including jokes about est, but it's a window into a specific place and time. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic for that period of time, when everybody rubbed shoulders with everyone else, and people weren't so isolated and cloistered in their own little groups reaffirming their own little world view. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS, ERGODOBOOKS, MORE BOOKS, IRISH BOOKSELLERS, PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS, BOOKSPLEASE, RIA CHRISTIE, DISCOVER BOOKS, BOOKS2ANYWHERE, BOOKS EXPRESS, CHIRON MEDIA!

A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Had she taken her own advice, perhaps we wouldn't have this collection of superficial notions and jokes that are so much more masturbatory and self-satisfying than they are thoughtful or noteworthy. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Welfare work for policy-holders : conducted by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.