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McCloskey

[ muh-klos-kee ]

noun

  1. John, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.


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Happyism Dierdre N. McCloskey, The New Republic The creepy new economics of pleasure.

Valley constituencies routinely sent to Congress moderate Republicans like Pete McCloskey, Ed Zschau, and Tom Campbell.

Presently Commodore McCloskey's friendly voice rang over the wire.

"Not yet, Mr. McCloskey," laughed Lidgerwood, getting his first real measure of the man in the hearty hand-grip.

In the midst of the letter-sorting, McCloskey put his head in at the door of the private office.

McCloskey went on, industriously drawing lines in the sand, and Lidgerwood sat on a cross-tie end and conned his lesson.

The matter to be taken up with McCloskey, master of trains and chief of the telegraph department, was not altogether disciplinary.

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