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Blacking; so called from Larry Dugan, a noted shoeblack of Dublin, whose face was always smudged with his blacking. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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(Encyclopedia) Haynes, John, c.1594–1654, colonial governor of Massachusetts and then of Connecticut. He emigrated (1633) from England to Massachusetts and as governor (1635) banished Roger Williams…
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