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  • Oklahoma! proved that a musical could be as big and durable a hit as the biggest hit non-musicals, which meant that musicals had to be timeless instead of topical, star-proof instead of built around one particular star.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • Oklahoma! proved that a musical could be as big and durable a hit as the biggest hit non-musicals, which meant that musicals had to be timeless instead of topical, star-proof instead of built around one particular star.

    From San Pedro to Fresno, No Maiden There Says No Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • Once there were flutterings among the nutmeg pigeons in the star-proof jungle of the crowded inlet to the south.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • King Alfonso El Sabio could hardly think it possible that Milton might have taken a hint here, although some persons have, it seems, been disturbed because skylarks do not come to the window, just as others are troubled because the flowers in _Lycidas_ do not grow at the same time, and because they think they could see stars through the "star-proof" trees of the

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • [21] Cf. Milton's "elms star-proof" in the _Arcades_.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Once there were flutterings among the nutmeg pigeons in the star-proof jungle of the crowded inlet to the south.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • To all female fascinations he had been hitherto star-proof.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • To all female fascinations he had been hitherto star-proof.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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