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Neighbours City now offered United a groundshare, a reversal of Davies’ proposal after the First World War.
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Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
The idea of wealthy, somewhat debauched, but also a super-gifted artistic personality before the First World War owning cheetahs in Venice.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Defeat in the First World War and the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles had turned the imperial power into a shambolic constitutional republic ill-equipped to curb rampant inflation or pacify violent uprisings from the right and left.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
During the First World War, in the German Gotha bombers’ dropping their payloads on the Paris suburbs, Proust saw the swirling tumult of El Greco.
—Andrew Pulver, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
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Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
The idea of wealthy, somewhat debauched, but also a super-gifted artistic personality before the First World War owning cheetahs in Venice.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Defeat in the First World War and the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles had turned the imperial power into a shambolic constitutional republic ill-equipped to curb rampant inflation or pacify violent uprisings from the right and left.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
During the First World War, in the German Gotha bombers’ dropping their payloads on the Paris suburbs, Proust saw the swirling tumult of El Greco.
—Andrew Pulver, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
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“First World War.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/First%20World%20War. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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