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In the Golden Nineties choose

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[US] (ref. to 1890s) H.C. Brown In the Golden Nineties 177: The cellar ‘free and easies’.
at free-and-easy, n.
[US] (ref. to 1890s) H.C. Brown In the Golden Nineties 187: With a lot of blue noses on the Board, this concession was not secured without great diplomacy.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] (ref. to 1890s) H.C. Brown In the Golden Nineties 177: The ‘leatherheads’ (now ‘cops’) used to make periodical descents on them.
at leatherhead, n.
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