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Letter "S" » stocking
«No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.»
Author: Alfred E. Smith
(
Governor)
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Keywords:
Claus,
Clauses,
fireplace,
fireplaces,
hung,
local,
municipal,
official,
sane,
Santa,
Santa Claus,
stocking,
stockings
«In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.»
«If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.»
«I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.»
Author: Warren Buffett
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Keywords:
assumption,
attempt,
Five Days,
in stock,
market,
reopen,
reopened,
reopening,
stock,
stocked,
stocked with,
stocking,
the market,
the next,
the next day
«A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade»
«After today, I'll bet Santa takes a shovel to the reindeer stalls to fill your stocking.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(
Author)
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Keywords:
after,
bet,
betting,
fill,
in stock,
I Bet You,
reindeer,
Santa,
shovel,
shoveling,
stalling,
stalls,
stocked,
stocked with,
stocking,
stockings,
takes,
you bet
«Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day»
Author: George Carlin
(
Actor,
Author,
Comedian)
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About:
Trade
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Keywords:
balconies,
balcony,
closes,
comes out,
exchange,
hammer,
slamming,
slams,
stock,
stocking,
The Big Money,
with that
«Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.»
Author: Jay Leno
(
Comedian,
Host)
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Keywords:
bob,
bobbing,
Bobs,
Bob Dole,
bob up,
bought,
buy off,
dole,
doled,
doled out,
doling,
in stock,
Larry,
larry king,
Republican,
revealed,
stock,
stocked,
stocked with,
stocking,
subjects,
The test,
Viagra
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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Keywords:
answered,
bogey,
capped,
caps,
dislikes,
early childhood,
encountered,
face value,
heroes,
intensities,
labeled,
masks,
penetrable,
races,
stocking,
stockings,
tactic,
tactics,
the town,
town,
unanswered
«A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, / A cap by night - a stocking all the day!»