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  • Paul, what I've always felt was the reatest staff I've ever seen in any liberal organization anywhere.

    Oral History Interview with Leslie W. Dunbar, December 18, 1978. Interview G-0075. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1978

  • "It would give me the gr-reatest of pleasure, Miss Car-roll, to shake you!"

    A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

  • And he knew also at once what would be the gr-reatest happiness that life could give him.

    A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

  • All th 'people looked up to him, an' th 'kids followed him down th' sthreet; an ''twas th' gr-reatest priv'lige f'r anny wan f'r to play dominos with him near th 'joker.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'gr-reatest rayspict was shown f'r th' former chief magistrate iv th 'raypublic.

    Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Dooley, th 'gr-reatest statesman iv his age,' an 'have thim name babies, sthreets, schools, canal boats, an' five-cent seegars afther me, an 'whin I died to have it put in th' books that 'at this critical peeryod in th' history of America there was need iv a man who combined strenth iv charackter with love iv counthry.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • A woman that marries a janius has a fine chance iv her false hair becomin 'more immortal thin his gr-reatest deed.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • 'He's wan iv th' gr-reatest surgeons iv our time, 'he says,' an 'can cure annything fr'm pips to glanders,' he says.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • F'r some reason he niver left his house, but passed away within a month, one of th 'gr-reatest men th' cinchry has projooced.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • They were th 'gr-reatest liars in th' wurruld an 'formerly friends iv th' Prisidint.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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