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  • Still, if it'll help this brainless wonder capture the 2012 Rethuglican nomination, it'll all be worthwhile. gertrude Martins

    Palin, Winfrey talk about big interview 2009

  • Because someone must be gertrude stein, someone must save us from the literalists and realists, and narratives of the beginning and end, someone must be a river that can type. — Lynn Emanuel, from “inside gertrude stien”

    Why I don’t write poetry anymore: Sam Rasnake 2011

  • | Reply you are indeed a brit. no henry james, faulkner, gertrude stein, toni morrison or fitzgerald.sigh. at least wharton made the list

    50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Perhaps this explains her lack of respect for others. gertrude lang

    Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008

  • And instead of being a man, you bow down and call your girlfriend gertrude for the rest of your life.

    Van City back to the big time! Duane Rollins 2009

  • But some other girl decides she should be the only one named Heather, so she decrees that your girlfriend's name is now gertrude.

    Van City back to the big time! Duane Rollins 2009

  • She was offended by the test, and by the performance of gertrude berg, who won the role.

    Molly Picon. 2009

  • She grew up with claribel and etta cone, friends of her mother, and saw them and gertrude stein in Europe in the 1920s.

    Adele Gutman Nathan. 2009

  • Ozick has also had pieces on The Portrait of a Lady and gertrude stein, as well as a fictional account of a visit from a Muscovite cousin published in her regular outlets, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker.

    Cynthia Ozick. 2009

  • And if they are not banging on the hull with hammers or getting on the gertrude (ph) to talk to the ships that are overhead, it means they can't talk.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Is the Kennedy Legacy? - August 15, 2000 2000

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