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Miss Magill's Monitor

Because of her age, Miss Magill would leave the room for a few minutes from time to time. When she did, she brought in one of her former students, now in the upper grades, to serve as monitors. (Th... | posted by oldtimewriter
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Miss Anna F. Magill

“First, children must want to read,” Miss Anna F. Magill would tell the teachers who came from all over the United States to learn her methods. “And second, they must have something worth reading.”... read more | posted by oldtimewriter
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At Knife Point

This is my fiction novel that was released on August 15, 2009 by Amazon.com ISBN #975-1442110359 under the name of R. Terry McAnally. Detective Hepburn thought he was on track and had gathered all... | posted by ChesseyCat
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Way Things Used To Be 44, Horrors Of War Cards 3

One day when I came home from school, a woman who didn’t speak English was in our living room sewing a dress on my mother’s sewing machine. My mother spoke to her by using the dictionary she’d boug... read more | posted by oldtimewriter
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Way Things Used To Be, 43- Horrors Of War Cards, 2

After card eighteen the compositions of the Horrors of War cards seemed to open up and grow less crowded. In addition, the subject matter expanded from the Sino-Japanese War to the Spanish Civil Wa... | posted by oldtimewriter
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Horrors Of War Cards, Part 1

The pastel-colored scenes on the front had a yellowish tint and depicted so much death and violence some parents forbade their children to buy them. The first twenty in the series were as lacking i... | posted by oldtimewriter
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Camus, Lincolb And Coquillages, Part 2

Part 2—The Coquillages I left the café, strolled up the boulevard, took a table in a seafood restaurant and ordered mussels, a green salad and a bottle of Rhone red. As I finished Camus’ chapter on... read more | posted by oldtimewriter
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Camus, Lincoln And Coquillages

Part 1—Camus and Lincoln A couple of months ago, I was sitting in a cafe on Boulevard du Montparnasse, having a drink before dinner, rereading THE REBEL, half-hoping to be interrupted by some intel... read more | posted by oldtimewriter
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A Short Story I Wrote

1799 February 7 – Qianlong Emperor of China, died May 20th, Balzac is born June 6th, Pushkin in born June 6 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician, died. July 4th, King Oscar of Norway... read more | posted by MalteseColleen
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Way Things Used To Be 41--Ma's Junk Shop

When you walked into Ma’s Junk Shop on west Eighty-Ninth in Manhattan, you saw a small soda fountain with three stools to your left, and then a long glass display case filled with the hundred diffe... read more | posted by oldtimewriter
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