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My bunch down at the flop house was in deadly terror of being "kangarooed" and sent to a peon camp in the rice swamps.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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Recently he had been candidate for district judge on the Progressive ticket, and told of his efforts to carry on a campaign in the coal-camps -- how his circulars had been confiscated, his posters torn down, his supporters "kangarooed."
King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923
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I told her that I was already rewarded, for I had guarded her jewels in order to protect myself from being suspected of their theft and so kangarooed into a slave-camp.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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