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  • General Nuttall, commanding the cavalry and horse-artillery, failing to recall Maclaine, sent forward in support of him the four remaining guns of the battery.

    The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

  • From the corner tables in the dark corners of bars and restaurants down near Wall Street, far from the wives in Larchmont and White Plains, executives hit up young women like Maclaine's character again and again.

    Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011

  • Shirley Maclaine: 6 time Oscar nominee/winner and 6 Time Emmy Nominee

    Twilight Lexicon » Valentine’s Day: Does It Have The Appeal? 2010

  • Iredell and Davie explained that it would prevent further issues of legal-tender paper currency but have no effect on past issues except, Maclaine suggested, to raise their value by prohibiting future emissions.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The delegates then zipped through the rest of Article II with only one speech by Maclaine, who answered objections nobody had made.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Gary Busey traveled back through time with a pocketfull of rophynol and date-raped seven different incarnations of Shirley Maclaine.

    HO HUM, BUSEY IN A STRAITJACKET AGAIN 2008

  • Souls can also visit the Shirley Maclaine Past Lives Pavilion to see what their other incarnations were like.

    The Afterlife in Fiction and Movies trinfaneb 2008

  • Federal taxes, Maclaine conceded, would have to be paid in gold or silver, “not in imaginary money,” but he said informed people expected that “there will be no taxes laid immediately, or, if any, that they will be very inconsiderable.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • At least Maclaine was consistent: The essays signed “Publicola,” which he had published the previous March, treated those who criticized the Constitution in much the same way.34

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Archibald Maclaine, a crotchety, fifty-nine-year-old lawyer, planter, and Scots-Irish immigrant who represented the town of Wilmington, also spoke frequently and intelligently at the North Carolina ratifying convention, but often, like Robert R. Livingston in New York, “impolitically.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

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