cockalorum
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Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained.
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In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County.
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Born with no great passion for "the high cockalorum of heroism," De Forest wrote frankly of the nuisance of being shot at, of the multiple woes of a company-grade officer's life.
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The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat."
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"Now, Lucas, dear boy," said Heriot genially, "tell this old cockalorum who you saw off on a steamer for South America."
From The Prodigal Father by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
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