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Bryan Daily Eagle & Pilot choose

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[US] Bryan Dly Eagle (TX) 8 Oct. 2/6: [...] only to discover later that the $1000 roll was simply a wad of paper with a $10 bill wrapped around it. This [...] was known as ‘pigeon dropping’, amnd the operators as ‘pigeon droppers’.
at pigeon dropper (n.) under pigeon drop, n.
[US] Bryan Dly Eagle (TX) 7 Dec. 3/2: ‘The Pumpkin Husker,’ a rural comedy.
at pumpkin-roller (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] Bryan Dly Eagle (TX) 9 June 2/1: He cracks his whip above their heads with a dexterity equal to any ‘bull driver’.
at bull-driver (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] Bryan Dly Eagle (TX) 20 Nov. 2/2: We are comforted by the fact that other places are in a dad gummed sight worse fix.
at dad-gum, adj.
[US] Bryan Dly Eagle (TX) 9 Jan. 2/1: Some fellow yells and wants to get his back up because he imagines we were shooting at him.
at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[US] Bryan Daily Eagle & Pilot (TX) 20 Aug. 2/2: How would this plan do — stop the shipment of every commodity [...] to England, and bottle her up as tight as Dick’s hatband.
at tight as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
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