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It is comforting to find that Dolley Madison was christened Dorothea , and perhaps not so comforting that Molly shows up also in gun molls gangsters girlfriends.'
Perhaps no issue better illustrates the poverty of our political and intellectual culture than the so-called debate over Black English, or as it has now been christened, Ebonics.
Deep in their hearts, the captains of industry know that corporate jets are a rip-off: Warren Buffett once christened his company jet "The Indefensible."
A staircase by the throne room leads to what Evans christened the piano nobile — an upper floor of the west wing.
Columbus christened the island San Juan Bautista (honoring St. John the Baptist).