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[US] Emporia News (KS) 21 June 1/5: [headline] How Peter Funk Does Business.
at Peter Funk, n.
[US] Emporia News (KS) 7 May 1/6: The latest fashion in Washington [...] ‘Please nominate your poison, gentlemen’.
at name your poison (phr.) under poison, n.
[US] Emporia News (KS) 24 Sept. 4/3: Mrs Forster would have done better to have [...] proceeded to beat some sense into his sconce with the business side of a wash-board.
at business end, the (n.) under business, n.
[US] Emporia Wkly News (KS) 6 Apr. 2/7: The brother, Charles [...] is dish-faced; his lower jaw jaw protrudes, and he has a decidely bulldog look.
at pie-faced, adj.
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