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Charlie Chaplin
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  • This was how Charlie Chaplin worked in his silent movies.†   (source)
  • She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter that went on and on for nearly an hour; as well as Charlie Chaplin, and Sun Yat-sen, and later Ernest Hemingway, who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow.†   (source)
  • I remembered a random bit of trivia, gleaned from who knows where: Charlie Chaplin was in his seventies when he fathered his youngest child.†   (source)
  • One snapshot I remember showed Uncle and Father as young men standing full front beside each other, their toes pointing outward like Charlie Chaplin's.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of hatblack, hard, roundthat Tereza had seen only on the screen, the kind of hat Chaplin wore.†   (source)
  • It typically came before the short comic feature—the Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy—and it always had lots of kissing.†   (source)
  • Pulling the seat of his Charlie Chaplin pants to the side, he broke into deep laughter.†   (source)
  • Miss Paige, along with the film star Charlie Chaplin, should make it an interesting evening.†   (source)
  • Charlie Chaplin was in Ceylon.†   (source)
  • "Actually, it's Charlie Chaplin."†   (source)
  • In devotion to Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Blue, and the Keystone Kops, my brother Edward and I collapsed in laughter.†   (source)
  • Yes, chaplin.†   (source)
  • If he asked his father now, his father would say no, Charlie Chaplin was enough.†   (source)
  • When she was eight, Bridget loved two things: Charlie Chaplin and VW Bugs.†   (source)
  • Did old Chaplin-pants, old dusty-butt, love her or hate her; or was he merely singing?†   (source)
  • They went around and around like the policeman and Charlie Chaplin, both intending to fall down.†   (source)
  • The comic effect in these silent movies was often Chaplin's laconic acceptance of all the absurd things that happen to him.†   (source)
  • Your mother has to get you a new suit somehow so she can show you off to the neighbors and relations and they give you sweets and money and you can go to the Lyric Cinema to see Charlie Chaplin.†   (source)
  • She had dressed carefully, in dark jeans and the black Charlie Chaplin T-shirt her mom had given her for her birthday.†   (source)
  • She sat back and closed her eyes and remembered what it had felt like, flying down the block on her skates, doing her Chaplin moves.†   (source)
  • And she flew straight past the corner into the street, a Chaplin move if there ever was one, accompanied by the high music of two screaming mothers—her own and Tabitha's—from somewhere far behind.†   (source)
  • She practiced her Chaplin moves whenever she could—his funny duckwalk and the casually choppy way he zoomed around on his skates, arms straight down, legs swinging.†   (source)
  • " The Commissioner, whose health hadn't been good lately, called from bed, "Let's see you, Cholly Chaplin, before you leave," and when Dingbat, looking wronged, and leg-bound in the deforming breeches, stood up to him, he said, colossally amused, "Ee-dyot!†   (source)
  • Take me: I'd rather see this here Charlie Chaplin any day than this here Corset Payton the wife goes for.†   (source)
  • "Charlie Chaplin," volunteered Taylor, at the same time proceeding to ricochet the boat as roughly and erratically as possible in order to make her lose her balance.†   (source)
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