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because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Lost
Mouth
Anything
Mouths
Every
Theater
Barrymore
Time
Decided
Southerner
Line
Ringing
Stage
Southern
Lines
Bound
Comes
Bounds

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