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[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 12 Mar. 1/4: Paragraphs on Different Subjects Framed by the Pen and Pencil Pushers.
at pen-pusher, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 12 Mar. 1/4: Paragraphs on Different Subjects Framed by the Pen and Pencil Pushers.
at pencil-pusher, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 10 May 1/3: Of all the punky hitters that come from Punky town / The Huns from Shenandoah are the brownest of the brown.
at punky, adj.
[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 10 May 1/3: With Old man Nevins pitching and all his rocky crew / They should scratch out a winning in a century or two.
at rocky, adj.
[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 25 May 1/5: Mr Titman’s horse received rather a rough deal.
at raw deal (n.) under raw, adj.
[US] Eve. Herald (Klamath Falls, OH) 20 Jan. 2/2: The deadbeast is not a new species [...] No more troublesome element is found in society today than the person in debt who can pay but will not pay.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Albuquerque, NM) 25 Sept. 12/3: Jump Jump Jump Jim Crow / Issues come and issues go.
at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Albuquerque, NM) 23 Apr. 4/5: [headline] Indiana Picnic — Hoosiers Attention!
at hoosier, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Albuquerque, NM) 25 Dec. 5/1: Tghe youths had one cell in death row.
at Death Row, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Albuquerque, NM) 22 Jan. 5/1: Joe Doe paid his bills. [...] James Roe chose the other way [...] and rapidly drifted into the ‘deadbeat’ class.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] Eve. Herald (Shenandoah, PA) 13 June 4/6: One block [in Harlem] has 12 churches, you see beautiful town houses designed by Stanford White along Striver’s Row.
at Strivers’ Row, n.
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