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"ref": "1914 August, Wm. Hamilton Osborne, “Blowing the Crowd”, in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help, volume 9, number 8",
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"ref": "1948, Daily Labor Report - Issues 181-210, page 326",
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"ref": "2013, Chris Crowley, Jennifer Sacheck, Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book",
"text": "But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is a bum's rush!”",
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"ref": "2013, Jack Mingo, Bees Make the Best Pets, page 81",
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