Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... party , the organization of another with new issues and a new platform , will be accompanied by new terms which will become the shibboleth or watchword of the party . The names of the older parties cease to be used , and are soon ...
... party , the organization of another with new issues and a new platform , will be accompanied by new terms which will become the shibboleth or watchword of the party . The names of the older parties cease to be used , and are soon ...
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... party ; and as the parties become extinct , or give place to new ones , the terms which express their peculiar ideas or doc- trines likewise fall out of use . In this class may be included such terms as Old Hunker , Bucktail ...
... party ; and as the parties become extinct , or give place to new ones , the terms which express their peculiar ideas or doc- trines likewise fall out of use . In this class may be included such terms as Old Hunker , Bucktail ...
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... party for many years , and hence had great weight in national politics.— Wheeler , Dict . Alcoholism . The practice , the results of using alcohol ; drunken- ness . - Three deaths of alcoholism ; three of diseases of the bones , joints ...
... party for many years , and hence had great weight in national politics.— Wheeler , Dict . Alcoholism . The practice , the results of using alcohol ; drunken- ness . - Three deaths of alcoholism ; three of diseases of the bones , joints ...
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... party that opposed the adoption of the Constitution of the United States , which was then always spoken of by the name of the Federal Constitution . The word is not now much used ; having been superseded by various other names , which ...
... party that opposed the adoption of the Constitution of the United States , which was then always spoken of by the name of the Federal Constitution . The word is not now much used ; having been superseded by various other names , which ...
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... party which favored the measures of the anti - renters . At the State Constitutional Convention of 1846 , so many members had been elected in the interest of the anti - renters , that they were enabled to procure the insertion of a ...
... party which favored the measures of the anti - renters . At the State Constitutional Convention of 1846 , so many members had been elected in the interest of the anti - renters , that they were enabled to procure the insertion of a ...
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