12.24.2009

one christmas eve...

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Abbot angels apples Arcie asked Barnaby beautiful BOOTH TARKINGTON candles candy child Christ Christmas Eve Christopher Morley cold cried dear Delia dinner dollars dolls door Edwards Effie Ellen eyes Fairy Father Fir Tree forest Gabriel Grub gifts goblin hand happy heard heart Jabez Janetta John Masefield knew Langston Hughes laughed Laura Laura Ingalls Wilder lay brother light LINCOLN STEFFENS little girl little Joe looked mamma Mary Merry Christmas morning Mother Magdalene never night Ogden Nash papa Peggy Phyllis McGinley pies pint pony presents pretty Robber Mother round Sally Santa Claus SELMA LAGERLOF sing Sister Francis Louise smiled snow song star stockings stood story street TAYLOR CALDWELL teaspoon tell things thought told Uncle John Ursula W. H. Auden

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  1. ^ Note: The definition of 'eve' is not identical to 'evening'. In the OED, eve is defined as "The evening, and hence usually the day before a Saint's day or other church festival. Hence gen. the evening, or the day, before any date or event.", Oxford English Dictionary, Second Ed. (1989)
  2. ^ Cuban Christmas Traditions
  3. ^ Bulgarian Main Courses
  4. ^ Réveillon
  5. ^ German Christmas Vocabulary
  6. ^ Stephen Fry revealed this during a discussion of Christmas traditions during an edition of QI
  7. ^ Day-by-Day Guide to Christmas & New Year in Spain
  8. ^ Christmas Traditions and Holiday Cookies
  9. ^ Eugene Fodor, Fodor's South 1980: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lousiana, 1979, at p. 87, available at Google Books
  10. ^ Gary Sigley, A Chinese Christmas Story, in Shi-xu, ed., Discourse as Cultural Struggle, 2007, at p. 99, available at Google Books
  11. ^ Adebayo Oyebade, Culture and Customs of Angola, 2007, at pp. 103, 140, available at Google Books
  12. ^ See, e.g., Clubzone, Twas the Night Before Christmas @ Tonic @ Tonic Nightclub Vancouver BC, 2009
  13. ^ See, e.g., Upcoming.org, The College Night Out, 2009
  14. ^ Brenda Lane Richardson, Deciding to Celebrate Christmas, or Not, New York Times, December 16, 1987
  15. ^ Christmas Eve parties now a Jewish tradition, Associated Press (MSNBC), December 23, 2006


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