roorback

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Dorgan knows how to make the best use of such a roorback on the eve of an election and even if

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  • Dorgan knows how to make the best use of such a roorback on the eve of an election and even if —  The Ear in the Wall
  • McLoughlin knows how to make the best use of such a roorback on the eve of an election, and even if I not only deny but prove that they are a fake, I'm afraid the harm will be done. —  The Poisoned Pen
  • Elizur Wright purchased a Whig paper, and seeing a statement in it concerning the Free-soil candidate which he believed from internal evidence to be untrue, he said quite loud: "Well! this is the finest roorback I have met with." —  Cambridge Sketches
  • "Baffled sleuth -- discovery by husband -- shots -- kicked down steps -- divorce case summons in the morning -- you see the whole roorback has come my way." —  The Henchman
 

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  1. After Baron von Roorback, imaginary author of Roorback's Tour Through the Western and Southern States, from which a passage was purportedly quoted in an attempt to disparage presidential candidate James K. Polk in 1844.

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  1. So called in allusion to certain fictions, published in the United States in 1844, devised for political purposes, but purporting to be taken from the “Travels of Baron Roorbach.”
 

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/ˈrurbæk/
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