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The company owned the fields, the town and the courts, and just an inkling of a suspicion of belonging to the "Mollies" was reason good enough for a long jail term -- that is if they didn't hang you.
From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You 2009
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The coal trusts suspected the "Mollies" as being the heart of the resistance when the company cut the workers wages by 20%.
From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You 2009
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"Mollies" were thoroughly dissatisfied with the arrangement.
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There was a generally known name, "Mollies," applied to homosexual persons, evidently having reference to their frequently feminine characteristics; there were houses of private resort for them ( "Molly houses"), there were special public places of rendezvous whither they went in search of adventure, exactly as there are today.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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They deal Black Mollies from their lunch boxes during breaks.
Odd Man Out Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011
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People can be users, or controlled by their own jealousy, and they have a long history of auditioning Mollies while still dating Marys.
Carolyn Hax: Her boyfriend says date with ex is platonic, and she's uneasy 2010
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Cultural and ethnic conflict led to violence against the Mollies and the Mollies, in turn, became violent, especially as other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe moved into the area, sometimes taking jobs the northern Europeans thought belonged to them.
Twelve Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Pennsylvania Coal Town 2009
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Mollies, an elegant inn owned by an opera coach, is built around music.
The Kiwi Boutiques 2008
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But he is unwilling to weigh the morality of the Mollies 'own actions, merely noting that they "turned to violence as the only remedy to gain justice in the mines."
From Eire to America 2008
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Rassamble the glowrings of Bruyant the Bref when the Mollies Makehal-pence took his leg for his thumb.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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