Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes!
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But it was a beautiful place. So I- I- I- Vira and I went together for about six years, I guess that she came. And oh we had a ball. Oh, cripes some of the stor-- |
Vulgar perversion of Christ n. in the exclamation (by) cripes! |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.
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Speaker: There weren't all that many games because it was Depression time. Ah, I think Crokinole was one of the- and Monopoly, I can remember those two. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Of course hide-and-go-seek when you're real small, eh? |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
In the circle there's a hole. And you have the little round wooden disks. That ah you would set at the edge of this here perimeter which is about ah thirty inches across the- the board- about thirty inches across. You'd set it on that mark and you had to hit it- hit the ah little Crokinole hoping you wouldn't hit one of those little pegs. And ah- and hoping that you could get in- in the hole, eh? Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: So anyway that's as far as that one went. And the next person would try the same thing but the next person always tried to knock yours away from that hole. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
Of a job, situation, etc.: undemanding, easy; requiring little or no effort; (later) spec. involving little effort, but ample or disproportionate rewards
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Ah I shudder every time I say, "I quit my job" because it's a really- I won't- I won't go so far to say it was a cushy job, but it was decent paying, full benefits, lots of holidays. |
Easy, comfortable |
a card bearing the names of (a woman's) prospective partners at a dance.
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Speaker: I- I came across- I don't know where I put it. I came across my dance card when I wrote about it in here at the school dances. Interviewer: What's a dance card. Tell us abut that. What- what is that? Speaker: Oh you had a dance card. These dances that- in the high-school- Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: And ah- and there w-- I don't know where I put that thing. There were twelve dances. Yeah, I think there was twelve or sixteen different ones. They were numbered and- and if you wanted to dance with me, then you put your name- |
a card bearing the names of (a woman's) prospective partners at a dance. |
Pleasant and affable in outward manner or address
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Yeah, yeah. Oh he- he- he felt debonair, eh? That got him into trouble, he was too good-looking sometimes. |
A stylish, confident man |
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You go to Virginia-Town you have housing available there from the former Kerr-Addison-Gold-Mine which has been closed for quite a few years. So they've got a few didly-pidly mines working there right now. You know what I mean? |
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... we used to just like do experiments like when we-- at our new house here we like tried to re-wire the whole cable ourselves and we actually did. We actually got the whole thing re-wired ourselves because I didn't have no cable in the one room. So we re-wired it from the laundry room up. |
"didn't have any" |
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Um- and you-know, you look at things like the Macassa ah, mine. They didn't have no idea how g-- deep the gold- the deeper they go, the better it gets. I-mean they got ground problems there but if they can solve that through engineering or-whatever, they might have a twenty-five, thirty year life on that line. |
"didn't have any" |
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Speaker: And I-don't-know if you- I know that you- you may have heard about the dirty-thirties? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Okay where this- all this wind blew all the soil away so they lost their farm and he- and he heard that the only place that you could make a living was working the mines. |
A period of dust storms in the 1930s that caused much ecological damage to both Canada and the United States |
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And he bought that in the thirties. Ah to help with the pulp-wood, but because being the dirty-thirties and the depression and all he had a hard time paying for it so he actually brought it back to the person he bought it from to the- the dealership he bought it from in Kirkland-Lake here and told him that he couldn't pay for it. |
A period of dust storms in the 1930s that caused much ecological damage to both Canada and the United States |
A social event, a party; a performance or show.
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Those are homemade- not mine. My niece from Muskoka was up to v-- for the big do, for the party on Saturday. |
Informal way of saying party or social gathering. |
To treat, as a doctor or physician; to administer medicine or medical treatment to.
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And ah- so he became a doctor and ah- doctored here for a long time and then he moved up to Timmins and ah, he passed away not ah that long ago. But ah ah then war came along and a lot of the- the fellows that I knew, that's including couple of my- my good boyfriends. |
Treat someone |
(The type of) an unsophisticated, impoverished rural community.
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But the- that was what the story used to be. Ah just- just like Dog Patch. And you know what? It was kind-of like Dog Patch. Everybody had a dog and a dog was running loose. |
A wild, rural community. |
to perfection, to the highest degree or point. In later use chiefly in dressed (up) to the nines : dressed very elaborately or smartly.
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You wouldn't believe and they dressed to nines. They had big dances and they dressed to the nines. They all did. |
to perfection, to the highest degree or point. In later use chiefly in dressed (up) to the nines : dressed very elaborately or smartly. |
A passage ‘driven’ or excavated horizontally, for working, exploration, ventilation, or draining; esp. one driven in the direction of a mineral vein. See 'driftway'.
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Speaker: There was one time there that we- I was working in what they called a drift. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And we were at the end of drift and we ah did our- our drilling- drilling of the holes. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then we loaded the ah- the holes up with powder. Then you had to light the fuses, eh? |
A passage ‘driven’ or excavated horizontally, for working, exploration, ventilation, or draining; esp. one driven in the direction of a mineral vein. See 'driftway'. |
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Speaker: ... when you go in the museum upstairs and you see the underground setting with the- with the a grey settings it looks as though you're looking in the mine-shaft. That was ah conceived by ah- it was a drift- ah (Speaker 2 speaks). Interviewer: Yeah, that's good. |
A passage ‘driven’ or excavated horizontally, for working, exploration, ventilation, or draining; esp. one driven in the direction of a mineral vein. See 'driftway'. |
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Speaker: I'm not sure how they do it now but when I was doing it, they had ah- y-- you were drill-- it's like a f-- they call it a face, eh? Your- your face. Y-- it's like in the drift. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And then you start your drift. So you had ah one, two- you start with five holes in the middle of the- the face I would say. And two holes are big like this. Like they're about three inches in diameter. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: They're called bull-bits. |
A passage ‘driven’ or excavated horizontally, for working, exploration, ventilation, or draining; esp. one driven in the direction of a mineral vein. See 'driftway'. |
A person who prepares and dispenses medicinal drugs
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Yeah yeah. And- and so um- we um ah- then we had this friend. He used to be a druggist here before the war. And then he was in the navy and then- his name was Bicker-Logan and then he had a pharmacy over- he was a pharmacist here and then after the war, he got married and he had a pharmacy over in a- in a Valdore. |
Pharmacist |
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Interviewer: What- what big things are happening because of the gold? What's it making better? Speaker: We're building a D-V-A. That's just because the government doesn't want to pay rent to the other building, it's not because of gold. |
Department of Veterans' Affairs. |