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MINNIE�The usual Cinderella story anent the transformation of Minnie, the ugly duckling, into Minnie, the bird of Paradise, thanks to truelove and a permanent wave.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of a rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past.

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Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death.

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Last week, at the Department of Commerce, Candidate Hoover received reports anent his great expectation.

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These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker