Lexicographical Neighbors of Boodled
Literary usage of Boodled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All who Love in the by William Thomas Stead (1894)
"... AND THE boodled. There is a story told of one of the early Caliphs which may
well be recalled in this connection. When he succeeded to the dominion of ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"... Mapes and r to defeat the damnable legislation, ited by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, red by Quay, boodled by Kemble lade forever execrable by the more ..."
3. In Old New York by Thomas Allibone Janvier (1894)
"And so for about a century after Governor Van Twiller, in a prophetically aldermanic
fashion, had boodled to himself the whole of the future Ninth Ward, ..."
4. The Struggle for Self-government: Being an Attempt to Trace American by Lincoln Steffens (1906)
"He will make his campaign on the same issue, " Boodle," and since the Republican
party also boodled, he will ask all men of all parties to let him organize ..."
5. "The System,": As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution by Franklin Hichborn (1915)
"... Prosecution that they have had since the boodled Supervisors told their story
of shame, and Ruef, In tears, delivered his confession, since recanted. ..."
6. Half Moon Series: Papers on Historic New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin, Alice Carrington Royce (1897)
"Two of these the outgoing governor, shifty Wouter Van Twiller, took, ''boodled,"
to quote Mr. Janvier, unto himself. But the thick-witted and hot-headed ..."
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