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Examples
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We just needed some dim bulb called Algy to wander in wearing tennis whites and carrying a racket and we could have been in a drawing room comedy, except that Stuckler was considerably more interesting than he appeared.
The Black Angel John Connolly 2005
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Meantime, Algy has decided to secretly woo Worthing's ward Cecily -- and adopts another identity: Worthing's dissolute and pretend brother.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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Am I missing some point about, perhaps, two popular celebrities or fictional characters called Coral and Algy?
Baffling question, reposted nwhyte 2009
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While searching for the missing Biggles and Ginger, their pals Algy and Bertie find blood on the ice, while a quarter of a mile away two polar bears are seen swimming away.
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Meantime, Algy has decided to secretly woo Worthing's ward Cecily -- and adopts another identity: Worthing's dissolute and pretend brother.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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If Warner were to tackle The Importance of Being Earnest, would she feel Jack and Algy had to watch internet porn or snort coke to bring the play home to a modern audience?
The School for Scandal's Deborah Warner: no mother of reinvention 2011
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If Warner were to tackle The Importance of Being Earnest, would she feel Jack and Algy had to watch internet porn or snort coke to bring the play home to a modern audience?
The School for Scandal's Deborah Warner: no mother of reinvention 2011
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In Wilde's clever hands, a successful resolution depends on a sly infusion of truth, and the understanding that principles can always be suborned to profit; or as Algy notes: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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"I was just reading an article in the Birmingham Mail about Aston Villa losing the FA Cup trophy in 1895," writes Algy Taylor.
The Knowledge | Who are the most successful fictional team ever? 2012
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In Wilde's clever hands, a successful resolution depends on a sly infusion of truth, and the understanding that principles can always be suborned to profit; or as Algy notes: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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