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Canteening Overseas choose

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[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 32: Behold us at present off on a bat.
at on a bat under bat, n.3
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 125: Alice and I won’t have to leave the Division [...] Aren’t we the lucky guys?
at guy, n.2
[US] M. Baldwin letter in Canteening Overseas (1920) 166: The Germans say ‘God be with us.’ But if He is, He surely must be A.W.O.L.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 165: I couldn’t go back till ‘it’s all over but the shouting’.
at all over bar the shouting, phr.
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 149: After a delicious lunch of bully beef and gold fish (salmon) we prepared to return.
at goldfish, n.2
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 94: The Sammies are right in the ‘thick of it’ now.
at sammy, n.
[US] M. Baldwin letter in Canteening Overseas (1920) 113: Today is a sizzler.
at sizzler, n.
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 188: We seem to thrive nevertheless – on beef (horse, the boys call it).
at horse, n.
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 192: Yesterday at 8 A.M. we ‘lizzied’ out to the carnival grounds.
at lizzie, v.
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 190: They do acrocbatics [sic] [...] by the Rhine, causing the square-headed population to stare with astonishment.
at squareheaded, adj.2
[US] letter in M. Baldwin Canteening Overseas (1920) 187: I answered that I was making a stab at it.
at stab, n.1
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