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A form of decay in which wood becomes soft and weak and has a dull lifeless appearance.

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When in 1911 Robineau returned to Syracuse and Doat went back to France, the University City experiment came to an abrupt end.

Art nouveau at Sevres & the craftsman tradition in America: in the early 1900s, American writers and designers took a close interest in the remarkable art-nouveau designs that were being produced at Sevres. Gabriel P. Weisberg explores the impact of the firm's methods and achievements on American crafts

FRANNIE (Singing): "Mairzy doats and dozy doats/And liddle lamzy divey/A kiddley divey too, /Wooden shoe?

Good for Otto

20 (280m): Deday (3), Above Board (3), White Harry (3), Tiger Toes (3), Doats (1), Cheetah (Scr).

SPORT IN BRIEF

Tom Lee, Edinburgh A Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats was penned in 1944 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston.

THE MAN INTHE KNOW

She doats upon her own mother who we told her she wou'd see again in a moon & a half & endeavor'd to shew her the bright side of her dismal situation: both before and after breakfast she was vastly composed tho' you might see her soul sunk within her.

"Our amazing visitors": Catherine Cartwright's account of Labrador Inuit in England

Does a soft shoe shuffle or tap dances and sings) "Mairzy doats and dozy doats / And liddle lamzy divey / A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

The Old System

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase of a song in a way that yields an unexpected meaning: "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy" becomes "Mairzy Doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey.

Humor, fun, and novelty in song

Tchaikovsky's 1812 I can take, Mairzy Doats is bearable, the Flowers of the Forest OK at a pinch, but last week the woman in the seat behind had a phone which erupted every few minutes with a mocksepulchural whine intoning "Message from the darkside.

Irritating texts from dark side

Whistling Mairzy Doats, they tucked the black market bottles of Canadian Club or Dewar's Scotch the bell boy discreetly arranged for them inside their jackets.