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Letter "U" » uncles
«Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.»
Author: Edward G. Robinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
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«My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago»
Author: George Gobel
(Comedian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Chicago, his uncle, the town, town drunk, uncle, uncles
«My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?»
«It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns»
Author: Molly O'Neill
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
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«My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
chair, electric, electric chair, his uncle, lap, uncle, uncles
«Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
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«I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.»
«I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
daylight, his uncle, uncle, uncles
«I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,To judge what I have done.Have I, that put it into words,Spoilt what old loins have sent?»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
aunts, call on, grandson, great-aunt, great-uncle, spoilt, uncles
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