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  • If the concern where you are employed is all wrong, and the Old Man is a curmudgeon, it may be well for you to go to the Old Man and confidentially, quietly, and kindly 20 tell him that he is a curmudgeon.

    Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

  • The Old Man and Tony went back eighteen years; The Old Man was the oldest of Tony’s pigeons, and to look at him, Tony wasn’t sure who was the Old Man, him or the bird.

    Courting Trouble Scottoline, Lisa 1993

  • He does not know how she woke in the night to eat an orange and stare at him and think of the legendary Old Man of the Moon who sits in moonlight reading his book in which are recorded the connections that will come between people in the world.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • By the time the Old Man left office, he was some kind of scary joke, a human toxic site.

    Rick Horowitz: Cheney Plays 'Let's Pretend...': The Old Man's Off His Rocker 2010

  • He does not know how she woke in the night to eat an orange and stare at him and think of the legendary Old Man of the Moon who sits in moonlight reading his book in which are recorded the connections that will come between people in the world.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Danforth was forty-two years old and had joined the year before because he was bored; the others called him Old Man and asked a lot of joking questions about Vietnam.

    'War' 2010

  • He does not know how she woke in the night to eat an orange and stare at him and think of the legendary Old Man of the Moon who sits in moonlight reading his book in which are recorded the connections that will come between people in the world.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • By the time the Old Man left office, he was some kind of scary joke, a human toxic site.

    Rick Horowitz: Cheney Plays 'Let's Pretend...': The Old Man's Off His Rocker 2010

  • For twelve months, the Old Man had put him through the most comprehensive intelligence training he had ever experienced.

    Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010

  • That moves voters over to their Old Man who needs all the help he can get this cycle.

    Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention! 2009

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