billingsgate

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de