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And also ask him if we can use the Orensanz? she said, referring to the nineteenth-century shul on the Lower East Side.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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And also ask him if we can use the Orensanz? she said, referring to the nineteenth-century shul on the Lower East Side.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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And also ask him if we can use the Orensanz? she said, referring to the nineteenth-century shul on the Lower East Side.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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And also ask him if we can use the Orensanz? she said, referring to the nineteenth-century shul on the Lower East Side.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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And also ask him if we can use the Orensanz? she said, referring to the nineteenth-century shul on the Lower East Side.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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Had the ascetic ideals of nineteenth-century America remained dominant, there would be no movie theaters, no shopping, and no weekend.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Like nineteenth-century slaves who dressed above their station, working-class women of the early twentieth century crashed through the limits placed on their bodies.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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This ascetic ideal was one of the criteria of respectability in nineteenth-century America.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Just as nineteenth-century whites attacked slaves for “foolishly” imitating aristocrats in their dress, LaSelle called the high aspirations of working-class women stupid:
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In fact, no place on the planet was more integrated than the nineteenth-century western whorehouse, saloon, or dance hall.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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