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"ref": "1889, Clara J. Denton, “Santa Claus Outwitted: A Drama in One Act”, in Charles O. Shoemaker, editor, Holiday Entertainments Containing Short Dramas, Dialogues, Tableaux, Stories, Recitations, Etc. […], Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, “Scene II.—The Same”, page 10",
"text": "Now, dear Mrs. Santa Claus, stay your tears. I think we can outwit your cunning husband yet. / Mrs. Santa Claus (seizing Fairy’s hand and kissing them).—O you dear, dear Fairy, I shall love you now better than ever.",
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"ref": "1907, Thornwell Jacobs, Sinful Sadday: Son of a Cotton Mill: A Story of a Little Orphan Boy Who Lived to Triumph, Nashville, Tenn.: Smith & Lamar, page 67",
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"ref": "1914, Ella H. Clement, “A Christmas Eve Adventure”, in Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, editor, Choice Dialogues: A Collection of New and Original Dialogues for School and Social Entertainment, Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, published 1919, “Scene III”, page 134",
"text": "Mrs. Santa Claus, do you think your husband is going to bring that doll to our house?",
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"ref": "1914, The Windsor Magazine, volume 39, page 206, column 2",
"text": "Mrs. Santa Claus brushed a tear from her eye as she placed a generous bag of toys on the floor and prepared to depart.",
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"ref": "1993, Spencer Holst, “The Santa Claus Murderer”, in The Zebra Storyteller: Collected Stories, Station Hill Literary Editions, pages 92, 93",
"text": "So the next day several more prominent women came out, all dressed up like Mrs. Santa Claus with white powdered hair and red skirts and pillows in their stomachs and Santa Claus hats, and they weren’t killed either.[…]But this new generation of kids, who grew up believing in Mrs. Santa Claus, seemed to have a different attitude toward women.",
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"ref": "2004, Pat Hartman, Ghost Town: A Venice California Life, Xlibris, page 102",
"text": "Later I saw the stout matriarchs of both families walking together, both wearing bright red robes with white trim, like a couple of Mrs. Santa Clauses.",
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"ref": "2006, Jan Whitaker, Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class, St. Martin’s Press",
"text": "Crowd management was improved as female Santa’s helpers and Mrs. Santa Clauses came on the scene to calm children before their visit.",
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"text": "She brought the unpainted ceramic Santas and Mrs. Santa Clauses, reindeer, elves, and gift packages to us by the box load and spent every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 or sometimes 9:00 showing us how to properly paint the white figures so that they looked “neat” and “professionally done.”",
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"text": "Now, dear Mrs. Santa Claus, stay your tears. I think we can outwit your cunning husband yet. / Mrs. Santa Claus (seizing Fairy’s hand and kissing them).—O you dear, dear Fairy, I shall love you now better than ever.",
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