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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 12

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    "Good evening ladies and germs. I just flew in from Los Angeles. Boy are my arms tired (drummer gives rimshot on snare drum, audience laughs/groans). "Take my wife---Please!" "My doctor said I was in terrible shape. I told him, 'I want a second opinion.'

  3. Ladies of the Evening - Wikipedia

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    Ladies of the Evening is a play in four acts by Milton Herbert Gropper. It premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on December 23, 1924. [ 1 ] It closed in May 1925 after 159 performances.

  4. Text linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems.Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars.The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.

  5. Women in Shakespeare's works - Wikipedia

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    Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.

  6. Today is Friday - Wikipedia

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    Today is Friday is a short, one act play by Ernest Hemingway.The play was first published in pamphlet form in 1926 [2] but became more widely known through its subsequent publication in Hemingway's 1927 short story collection, Men Without Women. [3]

  7. Le Spleen de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Le Spleen de Paris explores the idea of pleasure as a vehicle for expressing emotion. Many of the poems refer to sex or sin explicitly (i.e. "Double Bedroom," "A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair", "Temptations"); others use subtle language and imagery to evoke sensuality (i.e. "the Artist's Confiteor").

  8. Godey's Lady's Book - Wikipedia

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    The magazine is best known for the hand-tinted fashion plate that appeared at the start of each issue, which provide a record of the progression of women's dress.Publisher Louis Godey boasted that in 1859, it cost $105,200 to produce the Lady's Book, with the coloring of the fashion-plates costing $8,000. [16]

  9. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - Wikipedia

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    The differences between the two almost identical plots lead scholars to believe that the poem is a parody of the romantic medieval tradition. The physical characteristics of Dame Ragnelle are exaggerated in comparison to the earlier text. Other characters, such as Sir Gawain and King Arthur, are portrayed as very stylized stereotypes of themselves.