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Gawktown Revival Club choose

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[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 55: Compared with this business, blind-pigging is honorable and boot-legging the dizziest heights of respectability.
at blind-pigger, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 24: I sincerely hope the church will have no reason to regret her bull-headedness in this matter.
at bullheaded, adj.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 18: ‘Call my voice bunged up?’ he croaked [...] ‘Yours is teetotally out of whack’.
at bunged up, adj.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 3: The typical western town, whose inhabitants have not as yet become smitten with a burning itch to be accounted ‘culchahed’ by the fag end of some remnant of a ‘higher civilization’.
at culchie, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 24: Preaching to a set of dead-heads is not quite as bad as dunning a pack of dead beats.
at deadhead, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 3: The fag end of some remnant of a ‘higher civilization’.
at fag end, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 86: He exchanged pulpits with Rev. Bulldozer [...] and the first thing that Mr. Bulldozer did when he paid me a pastoral call was to turn the hell-box upside down, sit on it, take out a wad of chewing gum and make himself thoroughly at home.
at hell-box (n.) under hell, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 12: Turn ye! turn ye! for why in the name of Sam Hill will ye die?
at Sam Hill, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 23: His co-jaw workers [...] were kept in a constant state of hectic terror.
at jaw-work (n.) under jaw, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 33: I exchanged ideas with Professor Poppycock.
at Mr, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 22: Will Deacon Ripsnorter encourage the young converts.
at rip snorter, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 24: They rubbernecked in open-mouthed astonishment at the man.
at rubberneck, v.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 28: High-toned Rubberneck people have a humanitarian desire to see how the other half of the world lives.
at rubberneck, n.
[US] J.W. Davis Gawktown Revival Club 18: ‘Call my voice bunged up?’ he croaked [...] ‘Yours is teetotally out of whack.’.
at out of whack under whack, n.2
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