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Sir: Your Joseph Wood Krutch item anent the Common Man recalled a good anecdote .

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Dolmage-Heath Lima, Peru Sir: In your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed.

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

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Fifteen-minute pause after dessert to listen to burst of rhetoric from unemployed husband anent, State of Union.

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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