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  • It added to a domestic menagerie, which already included a duckling called Cholly Knickerbocker, a dachshund called Mrs. Harris, four more assorted dogs, a parrot, a “repressed”11 canary called Admiral Canaris after the former chief of German Military Intelligence, and a naughty young magpie, whom Dahl named Walter Winchell after the American gossip columnist, with whom he had had many dealings in the war.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • I think it's just hedge funds got scared and everyone's running for the door right now, said Frank Cholly, senior market strategist with Lind-Waldock.

    Commodity Prices Plunge Liam Pleven 2011

  • Lady Jersey, Cholly gushed, was truly a credit to her adopted country, as hard-working as she was beautiful.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • Lady Jersey, ‘looking as lovely as ever on her arrival at the Drake Hotel’, Cholly Knickerbocker informed his New York readers, in July 1940, ‘…is expecting a visit from Mr Stork’.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • Cholly Mac was coaching and the Bear was still at Alabama.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • The Earl was said to be devastated and so Cholly had heard, were the blue-blooded throng who had once sworn to humiliate an American upstart.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • According to Elliot Shapiro (one of the pundits of popular song), Sibert 'undoubtedly heard "Been on the Cholly So Long."

    The Annotated "Casey Jones" Robert Hunter 2005

  • Cholly at all if i could figure out what the hell it was.

    Winburn Nationalizes Election Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • No one knows personalities better than our local Cholly Knickerbocker, but I'm sure not going to repeat any of it here!

    Personal Views of Easter in Mexico 2002

  • No one knows personalities better than our local Cholly Knickerbocker, but I'm sure not going to repeat any of it here!

    Personal Views of Easter in Mexico 2002

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