[Ads-l] An early "is is."

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 26 22:31:23 UTC 2017


1964 Jere Peacock _To Drill and Die_  (N.Y.: Bantam) 257: "The thing of it
is," Waldron said ... "is that this order was set up for you personally."

JL


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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