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  • Debbie posted some useful tips about making this soap over on her Daily Soap Ditties blog:

    Dr. Seuss Cloud Soap Anne-Marie 2008

  • His collected works, which included such noted titles as Departmental Ditties (1886), Plain Tales From the Hills (1888), and the short novel The Light That Failed (1890), already ran to several volumes, and were selling briskly in both their British and American editions.

    Who Was Kipling? 2007

  • We also revisit some categories that haven't seen any play in awhile in this and upcoming issues - this issue offers a sorely missed Dreadful Ditties section featuring everyone's favorite cartoon villain, Hans Conried.

    February 17th, 2007 z0mbieastronaut 2007

  • I've also added the "Dreadful Ditties" section to feature Halloween music, most of which was obtained through Astronaut Jason, who's put up his own page.

    May 19th, 2006 z0mbieastronaut 2006

  • Chaplets of Flowers, the men played on their Instruments, singing divers sweete Ditties to them, and thus were busied untill Supper time.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Kate stood to let the Doo-Wah Ditties shove their way free of the booth.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • The heckling was so rowdy that, as the arriving TV minivan navigated the potholes in the taw em parking lot, Jimmy offered a free beer to every able-bodied adult who applauded the Doo-Wah Ditties.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • That morning she studied Locke as he lounged deep in the visit offs chair recounting how Walter, in a supine gesture of community solidarity, had convinced Hathaway to audition as the new lead tenor in the Doo-Wah Ditties.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • From "Departmental Ditties," with the permission of A.P. Watt and

    Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

  • His instinct for story-telling in verse and prose had showed itself from his boyhood, but his first significant appearance in print was in 1886, with a volume of poems later included among the 'Departmental Ditties.'

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

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