billingsgate
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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
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