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"ref": "1985, The New York Times Biographical Service - Volume 16, page 210",
"text": "At one time or another every Springfield player was designated a \"black ace.\" According to Kilrea, that meant reporting to the rink at 8:30 in the morning and skating from 9 to 11. Another session followed in the afternoon, from 12 to 2, and Shore would keep his ace, or aces, out on the ice sometimes until 4 P.M. All in the name of discipline.",
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"ref": "2011, Rob Simpson, Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs",
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"ref": "2014, Terry Ryan, Tales of a First-Round Nothing: My Life as an NHL Footnote",
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"ref": "1968, Polly Rose Gottlieb, The Nine Lives of Billy Rose, page 92",
"text": "The big man in the Mafia said: 'Billy, me and the boys are praying for you. We know you're up against the big one this time, the big black ace'.",
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"ref": "1996, William Henry Young, A Study of Action-Adventure Fiction, page 186",
"text": "In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone.",
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"ref": "2011, Don Pendleton, Enemy Agents, page 16",
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"(slang) An elite mafia hitman."
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"ref": "1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode",
"text": "Blame her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.",
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"ref": "167?, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, A Trial of the Poets for the Bays",
"text": "The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double right was her own, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.",
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"ref": "1766, Jonathan Swift, Jounal to Stella",
"text": "Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike up into the head. Go, get two black aces, and fish for a manilio.",
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"text": "In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone.",
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"text": "Blame her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.",
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"ref": "167?, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, A Trial of the Poets for the Bays",
"text": "The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double right was her own, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1766, Jonathan Swift, Jounal to Stella",
"text": "Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike up into the head. Go, get two black aces, and fish for a manilio.",
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