to put on the imperial purple

This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money

Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the fruiters in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]

Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?