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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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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
