Citations:can'idate

English citations of can'idate

• 1910, James Russel Lowell, The Complete Works of James Russel Lowell: Poems‎^[1], volume II, Boston & New York, page 125:

  So I’ll set up ez can’idate fer any kin’ o’ office,
  (I mean fer any thet includes good easy‐cheers an’ soffies;
  Fer ez tu runnin’ fer a place ware work’s the time o’ day,
  You know thet’s wut I never did,—except the other way;)

• 1913, Mark Twain, chapter XIV, in Roughing It‎^[2], volume 1, New York: Harper and Brothers, page 101:

  She was as bald as a jug, and so she used to borrow Miss Jacop’s wig—Miss Jacops was the coffin‐peddler’s wife—a ratty old buzzard, he was, that used to go roosting around where people was sick, waiting for ’em; and there that old rip would sit all day, in the shade, on a coffin that he judged would fit the can’idate; and if it was a slow customer and kind of uncertain, he’d fetch his rations and a blanket along and sleep in the coffin nights.

• 1916, Jack Lait, chapter VI, in Beef, Iron and Wine‎^[3], Gayden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 50:

  ‘This here is a dangerous young can’idate for the pen,’ says the sergeant, pointing at a mush‐faced youngster charged wit’ swipin’ a ham or sayin’ ‘Oh, you kid’ to a blonde.

• 1917, Edward Bellamy Partridge, chapter XV, in Sube Cane‎^[4], Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, page 186:

  Watch me closely, ladies and gent’mun,” Sube declaimed with solemnity, “for I am about to confer on this can’idate the Order of the Golden Fish. This name, ladies and gent’mun, is given to this can’idate on account of his bein’ a trick swimmer. He claims he can do the creep, and the bludgeon, and the shears. In our future consuls he will be called ‘The Pike,’ ladies and gent’men, note the name, ‘The Pike!’ I will now give him the stripes that belong to him!”

• 1920 November 3, Olivia Price, “A Wedge in the Solid South”, in The Freeman‎^[5], volume II, number 34, New York, page 177:

  The chairman went on talking for a good while before relinquishing the floor to the can’idates. Poor things, they had waited so long that there wasn’t much time for their speeches. Anyway they seemed timid creatures compared with the very expansive chairman. The can’idate who had been looking after the fire so assiduously all the evening, made the only speech that could honestly be called a speech.

• 1922, George Washington Ogden, chapter V, in The Bondboy‎^[6], Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., page 87:

  “Why, ain’t you runnin’ for President on the squash‐vine ticket?” Asked Morgan. “I heard you was the can’idate.”