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[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 26 Sept. 7/3: He is going to be handicapped in not being allowed to drive a bunch of voters up to the trough at the booze foundry.
at booze foundry (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 8 Feb. 5/2: The lordly city plutes have nothing to gain.
at plute, n.
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 12 Feb. 6/1: By the jumping Jim Crow, it’s enough to make a saint grit his teeth!
at by the jumping Jim Crow! (excl.) under Jim Crow, n.
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 8 Oct. 8/3: One night Julian LeMoyne appeared as a resurrectionist [...] and took up a little coffin lined with lead.
at resurrectionist (n.) under resurrection, n.
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 30 Jan. 1/3: Whiskey-soaked, rum-guzzling, gin-guzzling politicians.
at guzzle, v.1
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 20 Sept. 6/5: A two-reel L-KO comdy ‘All Jazzed Up’.
at jazz up (v.) under jazz, v.
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 6 Aug. 3/3: When I was a boy [...] I could shoot straight as an army rifle, with a beanshooter.
at bean-shooter, n.1
[US] Colville Examiner (WA) 1 Oct. 6/3: No districvt shall be required to pay too much for its educational whistle.
at pay (too much) for one’s whistle (v.) under pay, v.
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