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Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) ar... - MORE Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master.... If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
Ambrose Bierce
names
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Whippersnapper clerks
Call us out of our name
We got to say mister
To spindling boys Whippersnapper clerks
Call us out of our name
We got to say mister
To spindling boys
Sterling Allen Brown
discrimination
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how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
E.E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody) | death
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Something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones? Something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
Bob Dylan
paranoia | alienation
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Look, mister, I'm so tired you'd be doin' me a big favor if you'd blow my head off. Look, mister, I'm so tired you'd be doin' me a big favor if you'd blow my head off.
Samuel Fuller
exhaustion | despair | killing
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find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!'
... - MORE find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!'

'Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper,
Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?'
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
mottos
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I'm right here to tell you, mister. There ain't nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. ... - MORE I'm right here to tell you, mister. There ain't nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. That's what makes it ourn. Bein' born on it. And workin' on it. And dyin' on it. And not no piece of paper with writin' on it.
Nunnally Johnson
land, the | home | generations
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I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mister President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending ... - MORE I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mister President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending on the breaks.
Stanley Kubrick
nuclear war | Cold War, the
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While all this was going on
Mister Alfred Tennyson sat like a baby
Doing his poetic business. While all this was going on
Mister Alfred Tennyson sat like a baby
Doing his poetic business.
Philip Larkin
writers and writing | selfishness
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there is more blood than
sweet juice
always more blood—mister
death goes indoors
exhausted there is more blood than
sweet juice
always more blood—mister
death goes indoors
exhausted
Denise Levertov
blood | death
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