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[US] Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 14 Sept. 2/1: No longer grace can be allowed these indifferent partizans: after the stated hour, the committee must wake them, shake them, and if still indifferent, force them into a carriage, like convicts in ‘Black Mariah,’ and drive them to the polls, nolens volens.
at Black Maria, n.
[US] Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 17 Aug. 2/2: We do not hesitate to say that ninety-nine in one hundred of all the thieves, murderers [...] shoulder-hitters, disbursers of ‘wet damnation’ [...] vote the Democratic ticket.
at shoulder-hitter (n.) under shoulder, n.
[US] Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 26 July 3/2: A Dangerous Gang of Counterfeiters [...] In their slang the word ‘pills’ is used to represent bogus coin, and ‘powders’ designates counterfeit paper.
at pill, n.
[US] Compiler (Gettysburg, PA) 31 Mar. 1/2: While ‘loafing’ in a recruiting-office the other evening a ‘Greek’ entered and asked if he could ‘lisht.’.
at Greek, n.
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