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... story has to do with Ruth Wallerstein , whom older members of the Madison Literary Club remember with love . One day in mid - November in the early fifties , I noticed a whistling swan in University Bay , and I reported it to Ruth . It ...
... story has to do with Ruth Wallerstein , whom older members of the Madison Literary Club remember with love . One day in mid - November in the early fifties , I noticed a whistling swan in University Bay , and I reported it to Ruth . It ...
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... story , almost reduced to its essentials the unhappy fate of a boy and girl whose love was “ star- crossed " by senseless family enmity ; just as a story it is fool - proof and perennial . It was old and successful before Shakespeare ...
... story , almost reduced to its essentials the unhappy fate of a boy and girl whose love was “ star- crossed " by senseless family enmity ; just as a story it is fool - proof and perennial . It was old and successful before Shakespeare ...
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... story of Saints Protus and Hyacinth follows immediately after the story of Saints Gorgonius and Dorotheus , whose day is September ninth . When I found them thus in sequence together , I was certain I had found the patrons of our pair ...
... story of Saints Protus and Hyacinth follows immediately after the story of Saints Gorgonius and Dorotheus , whose day is September ninth . When I found them thus in sequence together , I was certain I had found the patrons of our pair ...
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