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[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 27 Apr. 2/1: At the Theatre Royal: ‘The Belle of Brittany’; Now, when is somebody going to write a really up-to-date musical comedy and call it ‘The Bonzerina of Australia’?
at bonzarina, n.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 2 Jan. 5/4: This popular gentleman lias been endeavoring to better the conditions of the letter carriers [...] and in many other ways keeping up the good end of the stick for the workers.
at good end of the stick (n.) under stick, n.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 14 Dec. 5/1: The writer of that is probably some over-age ‘See-it-througher’ or ‘Would-to-Godder’ who dodged in past periods of war his ‘plain duty to the country’.
at would-to-Godder, n.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 8 June 2/1: The first governor was Wintle, and the gaol became facetiously known as Wintle’s Hotel. His successor was Castieau, and Castieau’s Hotel became the popular name for the institution.
at Castieau’s hotel, n.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 8 June 2/1: The first governor was Wintle, and the gaol became facetiously known as Wintle’s Hotel.
at Wintle’s Hotel, int.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 15 Jan. 9/4: [T]he flag-flapping loyalists of war time have disappeared. Where are the ‘Would-to-Godders’ and other war maniacs who sooled on these poor misguided men?
at would-to-Godder, n.
[Aus] Labor Call (Melbourne) 14 May 6/6: Another unfortunate outcome of the railway strike is the attempt to put women in charge of way-back stations in lieu of station masters.
at wayback, adj.
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