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[Aus] Taralgon Record (Vic.) 18 Nov. 4/1: Boys [...] you don’t give the Doctor a fair shake.
at fair shake, n.
[Aus] Taralgon Record (Vic.) 16 Oct. 3/3: Selim and Matal, both ridden by five-stone boys, did a fast ‘get’ over a mile; the first 6 furlongs in 1 min, 19 secs.
at get, n.3
[Aus] Traralgon Record (Vic.) 11 Jan. 4/5: [advert] The Slender Man. There was a man of slender frame, / Who trembled like a leaf, / And wasted till he’d nothing left, / But skin and bones and grief.
at skin-and-grief (n.) under skin, n.1
[Aus] Traralgon Record (Vic.) 25 Aug. 3/1: [W]e made a start downhill into Walhalla, along the famous Little Joe hill, the road on which is indescribable, or perhaps as ‘Mud’ called it, a ‘boshter’.
at boshter, n.
[Aus] Traralgon Record (Vic.) 22 jan. 2/2: The Thomas S. Clarkson School of Technology confers a degree of ‘bachelor of science in domestic engineering’ upon young women who complete the course in household sciences. [...] No grim bacilli could get by / If you were watching near. / Priscilla, oh, say you’ll be my / Domestic Engineer .
at domestic engineer (n.) under domestic, n.
[Aus] Traralgon Record (Vic.) 21 Aug. 2/1: The Salvation Army [...] A large crowd assembled at the corner of Franklin and Seymour-streets to witness the bombardment, and the devil got a pretty severe handling from the ‘gospel guns’.
at gospel-gun (n.) under gospel, n.
[Aus] Taralgon Record (Vic.) 15 Dec. 3/2: That would give Foster a fair crack of the whip.
at fair crack of the whip, n.
[Aus] Traralgon Record (Vic.) 18 June 5/2: Smith [...] was calling out ‘Bottle-O’ in a voice which could be heard a mile away.
at bottle-o, n.
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