And on six Sunday nights a year, ballroom dancers from as far away as St.Louis - two states away in Missouri - once again head to downtown Indianapolis to swing to the music of big bands and rekindle memories of long-ago dances and romances at the Roof.

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Once, long, long ago, almost forty years back, he passed through Ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

She sometimes recognized on the faces of others joy and ambition and other emotions she could recall having had once, long ago.

NEWYORKER: Death of a Revolutionary

Once, long ago, this farmer worked his fingers to the bone so his son could learn to be a clerk at the castle.

NEWYORKER: Deniers