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However, "Casey at the Bat" does not owe its popularity just to the quality of its writing. De Wolf Hopper, a well-known musical comedian of the early twentieth century, was given the newspaper clipping of "Casey" to recite for one of his acts...
...really can't understand how much I owe them [because] the bills are so screwed up," Bulos said...
...would like and suggest that the age criterion be eliminated. However, by doing so, we would shortchange the younger groups who are more vulnerable without funding. It is important to keep in mind that the older and larger groups were also at one time young and small. We simply owe it to the young groups to give them a fair chance to survive and succeed...
This is the kind of multilingual humor practiced by Vladimir Nabokov, except that he would have let the reader make the translation. Subtlety is not Updike's intention. Tristao and Isabel may be descended from ancient legend, but they owe much of their character to Monty Python and those old underground comic books in which Popeye and Olive Oyl assumed positions not found in the funny papers...
...teammates] make it easy for me," Snowden says. "I owe it all to the support of my teammates...