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Mr Dooley Says choose

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[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 50: I don’t see what th’ subjick races got to kick about.
at kick around, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 2: That’s why I’m a batch.
at bach, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 76: Till thim go to Bannagher.
at go to Bannagher! (excl.) under Bannagher, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 91: Th’ Philipeens, which ar-re a blamed nuisance.
at blame, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 71: It’s hot as blazes up there these days.
at blazes, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 102: They disthributed copies iv ‘Death in th’ Bottle’; or, ‘The Booze-Fighter’s Finish’ among our sojery.
at booze-fighter, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 92: Th’ Japs had gone a thousand miles [...] an’ were about busted.
at busted, adj.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 46: Go back an’ let th’ Chink kill ye.
at Chink, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 52: If th’ naygurs down South [...] flew at their masters, ye’d hear no more coon songs.
at coon song (n.) under coon, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 155: I don’t know-what-th’-divvle-it-was.
at what the devil...?, phr.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 102: Some iv th’ wretches were playin’ cards, properly called th’ Divvle’s Bible.
at devil’s (picture) books (n.) under devil, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 66: I begun to have a quare sinsation. I haven’t been able to find out what it was. I must ask Dock O’Leary.
at doc, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 63: Th’ fam’ly are down with th’ whoopin’ cough.
at down, adv.6
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 105: Th’ sons iv Mars [...] can get annything fr’m sulphuric acid to knock-out dhrops.
at knockout drops, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 48: How will y’r honour have [...] breakfast in th’ mornin’ when I’m through fannin’ ye?
at fan, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 156: I can hardly imagine how he stayed feather-headed long enough to take th’ villain’s joolry.
at feather-headed, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 41: Takin’ a dhraw at an opeem-pipe an’ r-readin’ a Fr-rinch novel.
at French, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 15: Far too gay aven f’r thim friv’lous people.
at gay, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 100: Up at Fort Shurdan they had a ginmill where th’ warryors cud go an’ besot thimsilves.
at gin-mill, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 15: He was betther known as a two-handed dhrinker.
at two-handed, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 39: See th’ lordly bachelor comin’ down th’ street, with his shiny plug hat an’ his white vest.
at plug-hat, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 175: I niver saw a Swede, a Hun, an Eyetalian [...] that I didn’t give him th’ shoulder.
at Hun, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 50: I dont’ see what th’ subjick races got to kick about. [Ibid.] 129: Low people like ye [...] will kick because it’s goin’ to cost ye more to indulge ye’er taste in ennervating luxuries.
at kick, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 16: Andhrew Jackson [...] licked th’ British at Noo Orleans be throwin cotton bales at thim.
at lick, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 149: Anything th’ rich do that ye want to do an’ don’t do is looney.
at loony, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 73: Th’ main guy [...] raises wages twinty per cent.
at main guy (n.) under main, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 50: A fact that th’ naygurs had known f’r a long time.
at nagah, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 41: She’d put on her bonnet an’ r-run over an’ sick th’ widow O’Brien on me.
at sic on, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 49: Watchin’ ye’er little pickahinnissies rollickin’ on th’ ground.
at piccaninny, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley Says 72: Th’ main guy is off at th’ seashore bein’ pinched f’r exceeding th’ speed-limit.
at pinch, v.
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