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  • JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, Miss Stone says that she is now so sorry, so very, very sorry that she wants to help with quake relief, that she'll have plenty of work to do to try and make amends with some very offended people.

    CNN Transcript May 29, 2008 2008

  • It seems that Miss Stone is such a good owner, she keeps her little darling out of the public eye.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005 2005

  • During the time that I was working with Miss Stone, these other two people, I didn't know them because I was working with her at her house; her shop was at her house.

    Oral History Interview with Blanche Scott, July 11, 1979. Interview H-0229. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

  • I worked with a lady, Miss Stone; I worked in her beauty shop with her.

    Oral History Interview with Blanche Scott, July 11, 1979. Interview H-0229. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

  • "Oh. Say, Miss Stone, is our old apartment vacant?"

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Froebel's canons, as interpreted by Miss Stone, took the ends of her fingers out from between her lips, where she had thrust them during the moment of her doubt, and raising her hand, said:

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • It was not so much the means that Miss Stone tried upon "Dodd" that were at fault, as it was the way in which she applied them and the end she strove to reach by their use.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • "Now here is something that will amuse you a little while, I am sure," pursued Miss Stone, and she laid a handful of beans upon the desk.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • "Dodd" Weaver was a wrong-doer, and under the treatment he was receiving from his parents, and had received from Miss Stone, he was waxing worse and worse with each recurring day.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • The multiplication table, that had been the bane of his school life, up to date, and which, under the stupid management of Amos Waughops and the over-wrought Grube methods of Miss Stone, had floored him in every tussle he had had with it, now grew tractable and docile, a creature subservient to his will and quick to do his bidding, unhesitatingly.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

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