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  • proper noun a language of Spain

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Examples

  • You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him -- at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars -- his Scotch soul was furious.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him -- at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars -- his Scotch soul was furious.

    Nira meets Fala 2008

  • The pooch of FDR, called Fala, made famous by his master's valor, recalls the Labrador called Buddy the Clintons owned, a fuddy-duddy since it despised the cat called Socks when not inside her litter box.

    Gershon Hepner: Dog Days in the White House 2010

  • The pooch of FDR, called Fala, made famous by his master's valor, recalls the Labrador called Buddy the Clintons owned, a fuddy-duddy since it despised the cat called Socks when not inside her litter box.

    Gershon Hepner: Dog Days in the White House Gershon Hepner 2010

  • The pooch of FDR, called Fala, made famous by his master's valor, recalls the Labrador called Buddy the Clintons owned, a fuddy-duddy since it despised the cat called Socks when not inside her litter box.

    Dog Days in the White House 2010

  • The pooch of FDR, called Fala, made famous by his master's valor, recalls the Labrador called Buddy the Clintons owned, a fuddy-duddy since it despised the cat called Socks when not inside her litter box.

    Gershon Hepner: Dog Days in the White House 2009

  • They’re on an island called Fala’isi in the Pacific.’

    The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

  • They’re on an island called Fala’isi in the Pacific.’

    The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

  • FDR's "Fala" speech, in which he responded to Republican attacks that he'd sent a battleship to Alaska to retrieve Fala, who'd been left behind, breathed new life and energy into his 1944 campaign:

    Examiner California Headlines 2010

  • Following Roosevelt's death 'Fala' remained with the former first lady, Eleanor, until 'Fala' died.

    Blogs navigation 2009

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