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Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 20 Aug. 1/2: [He] retorted upon his assailants by designating them as members of the ‘silver-tailed’ or would-be aristocratic mob, to whom the arrival of the Boomerang was fraught with commercial death or life. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 10 Dec. 2/7: The gallant ‘Knight of the Lancet’ recently elected a member of the Local Court, who though perhaps the last ‘Banana’ man who ventured to this field from the metropolis, yet modestly assumes the pretension of being a pioneer digger on Gympie. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 27 Mar. 3/1: The boys, after the manner of colonial boys, ‘poked borak'’at their distressed parents. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 8 July 5/4: The Maoris have too often come down like wolves upon the Australian fold, to expect anything like a chuck in; but there is some doubt of the excellence of the New Zealand form. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 22 Sept. 3/1: (Jones) replied, ‘More hair on your chest, old man, if you can do it’. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 30 Sept. 4/2: When finally in his hands it is described as ‘laid,’ while stolen stuff that is easily identifiable as dead swag, and can only be sold as chopped stuff when broken up. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 3 Aug. 5/5: ‘Will you introduce me to those girls? That second one on the near side was simply perfection. The flapper didn't look half so bad, either.’ ‘May I ask which of them you call the “flapper”?’ I said severely [...] ‘Why, the little one, the half-fledged youngster,’ replied Saynor. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 29 Nov. 2/4: She had about 480 on board of the chaps (no wounded, she was empty, luckily), and about 4 o’clock we left the scene [...] . She must be bonzerly built not to sink, although she was down a lot at the head, and had a big list on. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 10 Apr. 4/4: If the ‘sprigs’ have increased from three birds in 1917, to two hundred in 1918, what will be there grand total in 1919, even allowing for a large number slain by shanghai. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 10 Apr. 4/4: ‘[S]prig’ is the wrong name for the sparrow, but ‘sprag’ or ‘sprug’ is correct. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 1 Jan. 4/3: He claims the word ‘bosker’ as good French, only he spells it differently – ‘beau que ca’. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 2 Nov. 2/5: The Deadly ‘Double’. At Rockhampton on Sunday J. Ryan was giving his wife a double bank [etc]. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 26 Aug. 4/3: [T]hat farming centre of what is most popularly known as ‘Struggle town.’ The name originated in tho early days of settlement [...] not to signify that it was a struggling township, hut rather to distinguish it as a little suburb of its own. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 25 Mar. 4/1: His range of togs is largely concentrated in the white uniform of the ship’s steward, his winter suit with the old time ‘Tommy Dodd’ coat of the seventies, later on to be supplemented with the grey belly warmer as the winter approaches. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 25 Mar. 4/1: His range of togs is largely concentrated in the white uniform of the ship’s steward. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 5 Feb. 12/5: To me old hulk you’re grim and funny, / I’ve got you capp’d, /Let traffic slide, you old bush bunny, / Go and get scrapp’d! Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 2 Feb. 5/2: I would not exchange my position that of John Rockefeller, ‘King Dick’ or anyone else,' asserted. Mr. Frederick Arthur Trainer, in his introductory lecture on applied psychology. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 19 Jan. 7/5: Far be it from me to cast asparagus upon those men and women who use slang; it is, after all, their own funeral. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 31 Jan. 6/5: Fruit Machines: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Ned Kelly,’ Starlight and the Taxation Department all wrapped up in one. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 26 Mar. 4/4: Civvy Street is a pretty ‘drack’ affair after Army life in many ways. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 26 Mar. 4/4: Cursing, in a giggle-suit / To ease his rookie nervousness. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 21 June 1/8: Brawl at Council Meet [...] Phrases included ‘blanky ape,’ ‘larrikinism,’ ‘fool,’ and ‘go and get your head read’. Maryborough Chron. (Qld) 6 Nov. 2/5: Mr. W.G. Sengstock, who has spent a life time in country areas, recently saw [...] a couple of native bears, more popularly termed by children, teddy bears.