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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
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