They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
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Night (1960)Elie Wiesel
There's a bar in Edinburgh called "CC Bloom's." CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called "F**k-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill."
Margaret Cho
How is it, I wonder, that all religious officials, from God the Father to the parish beadle, should be so arbitrary and exacting.
Samuel (novelist Butler
Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
Tom Robbins
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
His circumspect demeanour procured him the surname of Silent, but under the cold exterior he concealed a busy, far-sighted intellect, and a generous, upright, daring heart.
William the Silent
Wiesel, Elie
Wiesenthal, Simon
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