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...selection includes wooden ginger-bread men and trains as well as colorful mittens and clown hats...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Oddly Shaped Store Has a Quirky Past | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...holidays, they bake special treats like German cake, "something that gets better with age," and ginger-bread people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Ice Skating to 'The Nutcracker': Break Alternatives to Theses Abound | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

Arrived at the fair, Busy warns the Littlewits to beware of the "heathen," and all enter Ursula's booth to partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BARTHOLOMEW FAIR" | 4/3/1908 | See Source »

Just then the eight-year-old dropped his ginger-bread on the floor, and as he dove down after it, I saw - Great Hercules and Adam Koch! Those two females had changed places, and those were the mother's eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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