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Dorothy

[ dawr-uh-thee, dor- ]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Dorothea.


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Dorothy Parker once noted that “the only ‘ism’ Hollywood cares about is plagiarism.”

In 1940 he married Dorothy Spence and soon had two young sons, Jim and Chris, to support.

You almost feel like she carried something with her from the Dorothy Parker generation.

When the Delle Donna's daughter, Dorothy, turned 15, Medrano testified, she bought the girl a dog.

“I would disappear in a puff of smoke and then reappear,” a former Dorothy recalled during her return to the Land of Oz.

Dame Dorothy Packington sent the trusty and well beloved Thos.

Fifteen years prior to the commencement of our story, Dorothy had been found by farmer Rushmere on the wild common fronting them.

Lovers our little Dorothy had by the score, though she was never seen but at church or at market.

Old Rushmere had raised an unreasonable persecution against his son on Dorothy's account.

It was a few days after the bursting of this domestic thunder-cloud, that Gilbert and Dorothy were thrown alone together.

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