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Blue-Grass Blade choose

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[US] Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 3 Aug. 1/3: A gang of railroad Irish will eat the 2 cents worth of hard tack.
at railroad Irish (n.) under railroad, adj.
[US] Blue Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 19 July 2/5: All the niggers skedaddled for old Kentucky like the Devil beating tanbark.
at hell beating tanbark under hell, n.
[US] Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 14 Feb. 2/2: Alack! I was only whoopin’ for a Bible Buster and a Toe Kisser!
at bible-buster (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Blue Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 15 July 1/3: Rev. Dr. Atterbury, a Presbyterian Bible-banger.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 20 Oct. 3/5: This is the town that the pulpit-thumper had a railroad man arrested for doing washing on Sunday.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] Blue Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 12 Jan. 3/2: Love [...] can make a bench-legged farmer boy a perfect Apollo.
at bench-legged (adj.) under bench, n.
[US] Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 28 June 6/1: he told the congregational preachers [...] ‘You are continually springing bum bull-con to your congregation’.
at bull con (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] Blue Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 12 Jan. 3/2: The love of which Mae writes is not the platonic brand which is calculated to knock the yum-yum out of life.
at yum-yum, n.
[US] Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington, KY) 11 Apr. 13/3: The may have been imbibing too freely of Jersey lightning or corn bug-juice.
at Jersey lightning (n.) under Jersey, adj.
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