Did you ever wonder where the phrase, "for Criminy's sake!" came from? Well you are about to find out. This is the story of one farsighted supply elf who almost ruined Christmas and how Mrs. Claus saved the day "for Criminy's sake."
Author: Richard M. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 1087856221
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 36
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Did you ever wonder where the phrase, "for Criminy's sake!" came from? Well you are about to find out. This is the story of one farsighted supply elf who almost ruined Christmas and how Mrs. Claus saved the day "for Criminy's sake."
Did you ever wonder where the phrase, "for Criminy's sake!" came from? Well you are about to find out. This is the story of one farsighted supply elf who almost ruined Christmas.
Author: Richard M. Williams
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 1731254695
Category:
Page: 36
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Did you ever wonder where the phrase, "for Criminy's sake!" came from? Well you are about to find out. This is the story of one farsighted supply elf who almost ruined Christmas.
So then he (or she) became Krisa, a word disgusting for my mother, but for me a
good word like “Criminy!” or “Kris Kringle,” or “the Christ child,” or maybe the little
cross my mother wore above her cleavage. Krisa was my first fan, except for ...
Author: Marc Estrin
Publisher: Unbridled Books
ISBN: 9781932961607
Category: Fiction
Page: 480
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A most unlikely life. “Marc Estrin” discovers that another writer’s novel — The Nose — not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation’s youth, but is based on the extraordinary life of a real person—an outcast named Alexei Pigov. “Estrin” searches Alexei out and asks him to provide annotations to The Nose. Alexei says that—although the events of the novel might, for the most part, be real—the purported reasons for them are all damnable lies. On the left-hand page of The Annotated Nose we read The Nose itself, and take in its beautifully unsettling illustrations. On the right-hand page we follow Alexei’s complaints – always surprising and often far-reaching. The layers in Estrin’s remarkable comic book are as multiple, eclectic, and outrageous as the sequence of masks Alexei wears to hide his face from the world over the caroming trajectory of his most unlikely life. The Annotated Nose is at once Marc Estrin’s most playful and his most ambitious work to date. A signed and numbered limited edition of 75 copies is also available.
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities
