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carpet-bagger
carpet-ˈbagger U.S. Pol. slang. [f. carpet-bag n. + -er.] A scornful appellation applied, after the American Civil War of 1861–5, to immigrants from the Northern into the Southern States, whose ‘property qualification’ consisted merely of the contents of the carpet-bag which they had brought with th... Oxford English Dictionary
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Frank S. Pixley
Marcelle (1908), music by Gustav Luders, starring Louise Gunning Woodland (1904), music by Gustav Luders The Grand Mogul (1907), music by Gustav Luders The Carpet Bagger (1896), adapted into a novel by Opie Read The Return of Eve The Enchanted Isle The Gypsy (1912) Apollo (1915) A Social Call (1915) The So-Gun Taming wikipedia.org
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carpet-bag
▪ I. ˌcarpet-ˈbag, n. 1. a. A travelling bag, properly one made of carpet.1830 Boston Directory 28 (Advt.). 1836 Dickens Early Coaches in Sk. Boz II. 173 The new carpet-bag you bought. 1844 Disraeli Coningsby i. v. (R.) Coningsby..had lost the key of his carpet-bag. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (... Oxford English Dictionary
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Colin Dexter
Lulu-Bar Motel" "Neighbourhood Watch" (Morse) "A Case of Mis-Identity" (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche) "The Inside Story" (Morse) "Monty's Revolver" "The Carpet-Bagger wikipedia.org
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carpet-bag
carpet-bagn (formerly) travelling bag made of carpet (旧时)毯制旅行袋. `carpet-bagger n (derog 贬) political candidate, etc who hopes for success in an area where he is not known and is therefore resented (在某地区因无名声而受排斥却希望获胜的)政治上的候选人等. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Henry Waterman Warren
Books Reminiscences of a Mississippi Carpet-bagger The Davis Press, Holden, Massachusetts (1914) References 1919 deaths 1838 births 20th-century American wikipedia.org
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rabble-rouser
rabble-rouser (ˈræb(ə)lraʊzə(r)) [f. rabble n.1 + rouser.] a. One who practises rabble-rousing; a demagogue.1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxii. 211 Nothing surpasses the munificent promises..of a genuine rabble rouser, just before an election. 1926 Even. Standard 12 July 3/2 You need not be a Ta... Oxford English Dictionary
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J. M. Thurmond
Called a carpet-bagger, a “true and unswerving Republican”, a loyal friend, a convicted liar, an honorable man, a scoundrel, and “a brilliant fellow . wikipedia.org
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Hunting the Wild Pineapple
has returned there to write and discovered a whole new population...Astley conveys 'a lot of sad poetry' and humour about the place which is 'a kind of carpet-bagger's wikipedia.org
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careerist
careerist (kəˈrɪərɪst) [f. career n. + -ist.] A person (esp. a holder of a public or responsible position) who is mainly intent on the furtherance of his career, often in an unscrupulous manner. Also attrib. or as adj.[1910 H. G. Wells Mr. Polly vii. 225 He called him the ‘chequered Careerist’.] 191... Oxford English Dictionary
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John Patterson Green
By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There. Cleveland, 1880. wikipedia.org
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Wireless Experimental Centre
He had little time for war-commissioned officers, referring to one who had been in business before the war as a "Bombay carpet-bagger". wikipedia.org
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1911 North Tyrone by-election
He was even referred to as a political Carpet-bagger, despite the fact that he was a local man. wikipedia.org
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Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
In 1877 Meriwether wrote a little book entitled "Ku-Klux Klan; or, the Carpet-bagger in New Orleans." wikipedia.org
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Angelo Poffo
Poffo wrestled in the 1970s and 1980s under a mask as "the Carpet Bagger" for Emile Dupree's Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling in the Maritime Provinces of wikipedia.org
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