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The Wild Bunch choose

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[US] J.D. Horan Wild Bunch (1960) 107: Fanny [...] the manager of a bawdyhouse on the edge of this rip-roaring old cowtown.
at cow town, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Wild Bunch (1960) 107: Kid Curry suggested Fannie Porter’s Sporting House in the section the outlaws referred to as ‘Hell’s Half Acre’.
at hell’s half acre (n.) under hell, n.
[US] J.D. Horan Wild Bunch (1960) 99: The boys had looked as if they were coming in to go on a high lonesome, and who knows what a man will say when he’s liquored up?
at high lonesome, n.
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