putting kibosh questions

[Sam Clements]

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From: "Stephen Goranson" <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
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Subject: putting kibosh questions


> ps. According to The Age, 18 Jan 1835  [unconfirmed]:
> 'The Late First Lord of the Admiralty [perhaps Sir James Graham] puts what
> Bill Ingilby calls "The kibosh" upon the Whigites....'
> It might be of interest if we could learn of Ingilby's travels.

Just confirming this from Newspaper archive.  Many uses in that time period
from _The Age_

Sam Clements

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