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The General Manager’s Story choose

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[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 88: Ye’ll have them all over the d-d carpet.
at carpet, n.1
[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 24: He was a car repairer and was at work between two cars on the ‘dead-head.’.
at deadhead, n.
[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 43: I’ll have to drop off a flag, or they’ll git our doghouse [i.e. caboose, on a freight train].
at doghouse, n.
[US] H.E Hamblen General Manager’s Story 14: An’ then I have to cart a carload of dope round the yard every day.
at dope, n.1
[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 129: On this afternoon Dinny saw ‘some felly comin’ like the devil batin’ tan-bark’.
at hell beating tanbark under hell, n.
[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 298: The engineer was, of course, discharged; and the head brakeman [...] was jacked up for thirty days.
at jack up, v.2
[US] H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 33: There’s nothing much the matter with him; few of his slats stove in, that’s all.
at slat, n.3
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