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Bores: Their Cause and Cure
How to cope with the dynamic type, the givers of skits, the baiters, single-subject addicts and mimics
July
1
1938
LOREN CARROLL
Bores: Their Cause and Cure
LOREN CARROLL
July
1
1938
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ARTICLE
Bores: Their Cause and Cure
How to cope with the dynamic type, the givers of skits, the baiters, single-subject addicts and mimics
July
1
1938
LOREN CARROLL
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