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1920-2021, b. Wilmette, Il., as Ann Dorothy Schuman. She began studying
dance as a child, and then briefly attended the…
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Booksellers and publishers. Rabelais says they inhabit a little hamlet near Lantern-land, and live by lanters. (Pantagruel, v. 33.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
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