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- Washington Irving is credited with coining the expression The Almighty Dollar.
- "Direct descendant of Washington Irving, Havistock is," she said helpfully.† (source)
- Washington Irving was a man of great sophistication who studied law, was admitted to the bar, served in Spain as a diplomat, wrote histories as well as fiction, traveled widely.† (source)
- Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Geraldine, Louis, Junior, and the cat lived next to the playground of Washington Irving School.† (source)
- Hans Christian Andersen, and Washington Irving.† (source)
- On those he did read he wrote, 'Washington Irving.'† (source)
- You are the first Washington Irving Junior High School students to perform in a Broadway play.† (source)
- Although, just between us, I don't think he's a descendant of Washington Irving at all."† (source)
- Although in modern academia Washington Irving has fallen a bit out of favor.† (source)
- Because no matter where I went in stupid Washington Irving Junior High School, there was the look.† (source)
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- Heading to Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Things at Washington Irving Junior High School were going mostly okay.† (source)
- We reached the front doors of Washington Irving Junior High School at the same time.† (source)
- One more blah day of PE at Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- It wasn't the best day I'd had at Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Things at Washington Irving Junior High School did not go well the next day.† (source)
- In Joel's she was flying over Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Things at Washington Irving Junior High School were going mostly okay.† (source)
- Things were not going so well at Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Like Washington Irving, he could be reversed with good effect whenever he grew monotonous.† (source)
- 'I never signed Washington Irving's name to any letters,' Milo declared.† (source)
- The next thing you know you'll be claiming you're Washington Irving.† (source)
- Major Major went back to Washington Irving when John Milton grew monotonous.† (source)
- He didn't say anything about Washington Irving, did he?'† (source)
- As an additional precaution, he made a happy switch from Washington Irving to John Milton.† (source)
- I don't even know Washington Irving's name.† (source)
- You could even be,' he added, 'Washington Irving, couldn't you?† (source)
- Washington Irving is the group chaplain.† (source)
- 'I haven't been signing Washington Irving's name to any letters,' said the chaplain.† (source)
- You haven't heard anyone around here talking about Washington Irving, have you?'† (source)
- 'Washington Irving?' the chaplain repeated with surprise.† (source)
- They're after a forger named Washington Irving.† (source)
- 'Because they're convinced that you are Washington Irving.† (source)
- How will it make a good impression for me if you signed Washington Irving's name instead of my own?'† (source)
- That is to say, he knows absolutely everyone …. claims an Astor connection as well as the Washington Irving one, and who's to say he is wrong?† (source)
- Shouted to the Washington Irving Junior High School Brass Quintet that they'd have to go practice somewhere else—Now!† (source)
- Washington Irving Junior High School looked like the same people who built the Marysville Free Public Library, built it.† (source)
- 'No one knew then that this kid from Washington Irving Junior High School would grow up to do' …. what?† (source)
- At seven o'clock, the principal got up and welcomed us all to an exciting new year of growth and opportunity at Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- After they sat down, Principal Peattie announced the school theme for the year—Washington Irving JH!† (source)
- A few nights before Washington Irving Junior High School was doomed to start, Spicer's Deli on Main Street, Marysville, got broken into.† (source)
- The next morning, Principal Peattie was waiting for me when I came into Washington Irving Junior High School.† (source)
- Somehow the message had gone out to all the teachers that the last two weeks of school were the last opportunity to bury the students of Washington Irving Junior High in work.† (source)
- Catch the Spirit! and then he called on a bunch of ninth-graders who were all wearing the same orange T-shirt with the school theme on the back—Washington Irving JH!† (source)
- Then he opened the door and told me to come in, and to sit, and then he sat down behind his desk and underneath the Brown Pelican and looked at me like I was personally responsible for causing all the problems of Washington Irving Junior High.† (source)
- The first Monday of September was The Night for All the New Kids Coming to Washington Irving Junior High School to Get Acquainted—which meant a whole bunch of seventh-graders who had probably lived in stupid Marysville their whole lives and one eighth-grader who had moved to town that summer.† (source)
- There were only three weeks left in August and then a few days in September before stupid Washington Irving Junior High School of stupid Marysville, New York, was scheduled to open its stupid doors and suck us away from summer.† (source)
- By Friday, we were at this part when Jane is at the boarding school, and this jerk who runs it—who sort of reminds me of the principal of Washington Irving Junior High School—makes Jane stand on a stool because he wants everyone to think that she's a liar, like she's been going over to the other team in PE or something absolutely horrible like that.† (source)
- You could see it in the eyes of the secretary in the Main Office of Washington Irving Junior High School that first day too, and in the eyes of Principal Peattie, who came out of his office so that he could identify me better if he ever had to pick me out of a lineup, and in the eyes of the guidance counselor who worked on my schedule, handed it to me, hesitated, and then decided to walk me to my homeroom because, she said, I didn't know my way around the school yet —but probably…† (source)
- When Washington Irving did grow monotonous, he could reverse the order and sign Irving Washington until that grew monotonous.† (source)
- He was talking about Washington Irving.† (source)
- He's looking for someone up in the hospital who's been signing Washington Irving's name to the letters he's been censoring.† (source)
- He had sinned, and it was good, for none of the documents to which he had signed Washington Irving's name ever came back!† (source)
- Signing Washington Irving's name to official documents was not much of a career, perhaps, but it was less monotonous than signing 'Major Major Major.'† (source)
- They're going to crack down on you for signing Washington Irving's name to all those letters you've been signing Washington Irving's name to.† (source)
- I came down to warn you that Washington Irving seems to have shifted his base of operations from the hospital to your squadron.† (source)
- Now, you keep your eyes open and let me know the minute you hear anyone even talking about Washington Irving.† (source)
- Perhaps he really was Washington Irving, and perhaps he really had been signing Washington Irving's name to those letters he knew nothing about.† (source)
- We figure that Washington Irving and Irving Washington are one man and that he's using two names just to throw us off the track.† (source)
- I just can't believe that anyone would seriously believe that I've been forging Washington Irving's name.'† (source)
- I used Washington Irving's name.'† (source)
- From this meager beginning had sprung the ineffectual squadron commander who was now spending the better part of each working day in Pianosa forging Washington Irving's name to official documents.† (source)
- Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written 'Washington Irving' or 'Irving Washington.'† (source)
- One day — it was the day after the C.I.D. man's first visit — Major Major signed Washington Irving's name to one of the documents instead of his own, just to see how it would feel.† (source)
- Furthermore, he enabled Major Major to double his output, for John Milton was so much shorter than either his own name or Washington Irving's and took so much less time to write.† (source)
- Yours or Washington Irving's?† (source)
- He dreaded what Colonel Cathcart would think when the news that he was suspected of being Washington Irving was brought to him, then fell to fretting over what Colonel Cathcart was already thinking about him for even having broached the subject of sixty missions.† (source)
- Major Major began forging Washington Irving's name to official documents the day after the first C.I.D. man showed up to interrogate him about somebody at the hospital who had been doing it and gave him the idea.† (source)
- 'Chaplain,' he announced with magisterial rigidity, 'we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men.† (source)
- He had been made squadron commander but had no idea what he was supposed to do as squadron commander, unless all he was supposed to do was forge Washington Irving's name to official documents and listen to the isolated clinks and thumps of Major — de Coverley's horseshoes falling to the ground outside the window of his small office in the rear of the orderly-room tent.† (source)
- Literature and art were deeply respected in the Archer set, and Mrs. Archer was always at pains to tell her children how much more agreeable and cultivated society had been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of "The Culprit Fay."† (source)
- Among the places I visited were West Point, Tarrytown, the home of Washington Irving, where I walked through "Sleepy Hollow."† (source)
- THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.† (source)
- Washington Irving also threw his influence against the /-or/ ending, and so did Bryant and most of the other literary big-wigs of that day.† (source)
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