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Description: 1,000 quotable quotes on subjects from the preposterous to the divine, uttered by history's more witty & wicked women. --Front cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1989].
Call number: 610026
ISBN: 0671690221; 9780671690229
Provenance: Gift of Curt B. Smith, 2016. From the library of Jack Smith.
Dimensions: 17 cm
Associated people: Adams, Abby,; Smith, Jack,
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Hawaii fares and schedules : change in fares effective May 1, 1933

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"PX. 52 10M 3-33 Printed in U. S. A."--back cover, bottom. "No. 18 March 15, 1933"--front cover, bottom. "The white section of this folder quotes fares for sailings prior to May 1, 1933. The colored section quotes fares for sailings May 1, 1933, and thereafter."--front cover. "Henry Miele travel service... Los Angeles, Calif."--stamped, black ink, front cover. Sailing schedule and fares for cruises between California and Honolulu; including special cruise advertisement, special reduced fares and room arraignment on gold colored pages, children and infant fares, Hawaii side trips, passenger regulations and information, schedule and fares for South Pacific cruises, and advertisement for tours and cruises. Focus of item: Lurline ; Mariposa ; Monterey .

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Toward a more picturesque speech (Readers digest vol. 24, no. 140)

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Language of material: English Publisher: Readers Digest Association, Inc. (Pleasantville, N.Y.) Related content pages: 14 Notes: A collection of witty quotations, includes a statement from Churchill originally reported in News-week. "Rio Hondo Junior College Library" and "DISCARD ; Rio Hondo College Library" stamped in black on the front cover.

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The ubiquitous Winnie (Readers digest vol. 41, no. 245)

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Language of material: English Publisher: Readers Digest Association, Inc. (Pleasantville, N.Y.) Author: Lyons, Leonard, 1906-1976 Related content pages: 136 Notes: An anecdote featuring a witty punch line from Churchill. "Rio Hondo Junior College Library" and "DISCARD ; Rio Hondo College Library" stamped in black on the front cover.

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Life begins at 68 (Readers digest vol. 41, no. 243)

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Language of material: English Publisher: Readers Digest Association, Inc. (Pleasantville, N.Y.) Author: Krock, Arthur, 1886-1974 Related content pages: 110 Notes: An anecdote featuring a witty punch line from Churchill. "Rio Hondo Junior College Library" and "DISCARD ; Rio Hondo College Library" stamped in black on the front cover.

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Family outside adobe structure

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Photo of a native woman standing in front of a dwelling with a pot balanced on her head. Three more women and a child also sit and stand in front of the dwelling.

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Little People's Pictures Painting Book: Father Tuck's Little Artist Series

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One painting book entitled Little People's Pictures Painting Book: Father Tuck's Little Artist Series, published by Kaufmann & Strauss Co., New York, ca. 1910. This 24-page painting book is comprised of lithograph images for painting and tracing and chromolithograph plates as samples. "Father Tuck's Little Artists Series" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the image on the front cover is of a boy, seated on the floor, in front of a painting he has created. The image on the back cover is of a child's drum toy. "Instructions for Little Artists" are printed on the inside of the front cover, and more information about color is printed on the inside of the back cover. "12.50" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the inside of the front cover.

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An Uncommon scold

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