Christ-mas

MOOS: Think of the Christ-mas Tree as a cross between a cross and a tree, only $399.

CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009 2009

Stop trying to take over Christ-mas and new year, you liberal, hippie communist, surrender monkey!

The War on New Year James F. McGrath 2008

As for the first, Christmas in 1843 was not at all the pre-mier occasion that it is today, when Christmas stories and their Grinches and elves and Santas abound, when "Christ-mas stores" purvey Yule decorations the four seasons round, and a marketing effort that begins sometime in mid-October is said to determine the fate of an entire year for retailers.

"The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits" 2008

War on Christ-mas and Easter, being waged by the “Christians”

Think Progress » O’Reilly Reversal: “There Is No Attack On Easter” 2006

By some reckonings, the Church of England still ranks as the largest in Anglicanism, but for many, observance stretches little beyond Christ-mas Day worship.

CRISIS IN THE COMMUNION 2008

So, I've been singing "Christmas Spirits" to that tune the way I remember "Anne" singing it when my junior high school produced the musical ... with a heavily accented final syllable - Christ-mas Spi-RUTS!

Christmas Spirits ... vuboq 2006

Now it is Christ-mas, now it is suffering-time, now we must keep holy day every day.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

And in our hearts it shines a-new, While at His throne we pray, God her-ald an-gels sang for joy, To tell a King was born. bless us all for Je-sus 'sake, This hap-py Christ-mas day.

The Story-teller Maud Lindsay

As the surrey swept even with the sidetracked tramp, the bright-eyed girl, seized by some merry, madcap impulse, leaned out toward him with a sweet, dazzling smile, and cried, "Mer-ry Christ-mas!" in a shrill, plaintive treble.

Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

The quintessential Christ-mas beer is Samichlaus, from the Austrian brewer Schloss

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