gashouse
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gashouses
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Hitherto these compounds have been wasted upon the air of the gashouse district.
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Only in the gashouse districts of U. S. cities was a parallel to be found to the wind-up last week of California's campaign for Governor.
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The gashouse gang grew rowdier as one reporter after another shoved in to yell questions over the din.
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Alfred W. McCann: "Professional dirty work long obsolete even among the carbarn and gashouse gangs."
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Not very long ago, each gashouse was good for a couple of hundred votes.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
Ah, gashouses ain't what they used to be!
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
I know the value of every foot of ground in my district, and I calculated long ago that if them gashouses was removed, surroundin' property would go up 100 per cent.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
When the Remsen Bill, providin' for the removal of the gashouses to Queens County came up.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
Like any sane man who had my information, I went in and got options on a lot of the property around the gashouses.
From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington
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