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"It's about ---- We have been told you know the man they call Soapy Stone.
Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Yes, there were some cynics in the Miller camp, old-school, party-line Republicans who cared not a wit that Miller was something of a modern day "Soapy" Smith.
AlaskaDispatch.com: If only Alaska's Joe Miller had been what he said he was AlaskaDispatch.com 2010
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Yes, there were some cynics in the Miller camp, old-school, party-line Republicans who cared not a wit that Miller was something of a modern day "Soapy" Smith.
AlaskaDispatch.com: If only Alaska's Joe Miller had been what he said he was AlaskaDispatch.com 2010
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Yes, there were some cynics in the Miller camp, old-school, party-line Republicans who cared not a wit that Miller was something of a modern day "Soapy" Smith.
AlaskaDispatch.com: If only Alaska's Joe Miller had been what he said he was AlaskaDispatch.com 2010
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From Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer, American readers can learn a lot about British law while laughing at silly characters like Samuel "Soapy" Ballard and Claude Erskine-Brown.
Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer ricklibrarian 2007
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From Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer, American readers can learn a lot about British law while laughing at silly characters like Samuel "Soapy" Ballard and Claude Erskine-Brown.
Archive 2007-12-01 ricklibrarian 2007
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The east-west camera run of the Peeping Tom house was known as 'Soapy' to the teams who serviced it, on account of the fact that part of the run covered the mirrored shower wall and the mirrors above the basins, which often became splashed with suds and foam.
Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001
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Anyway "Soapy Smith," a notorious gunman and gambler, who was eventually killed by a United States Marshal who was going to arrest him and who was killed by "Soapy" at the same time, both firing at one moment, had, with a big gang like himself, terrorized
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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I had seen a young man, whom I knew, knocked down and arrested for "raising a disturbance" when he objected to "Soapy" Smith's proceeding; and the policeman who arrested him did it with a smile and a wink.
Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers Various 1918
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Republicans won the elections by fraud -- by ballot-box stuffing and what not -- and I had followed one "Soapy" Smith on the streets, from precinct to precinct, with his gang of election thieves, and had seen them vote not once but five times openly.
Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers Various 1918
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