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Dakota Farmers’ Leader choose

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[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 19 Dec. 3/3: Say, Tom, a republican congress passed the pauper pension bill and pigeon-holed the service pension bill. What’s biting you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 31 Oct. 3: Society women picking up millionaires at watering places; street walkers picking up whomsoever they can along the Bowery.
at pick up, v.
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 5 Feb. 3/5: The School of Hard Knocks was where Andrew Carnegie gained his start.
at school of hard knocks, n.
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 8 Jan. 1/4: The other day we heard a man speak of another as a ‘d—d old coot’.
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 6 Oct. 15/6: The court attendants rushed to give him the bum’s rush.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 6 Oct. 15/6: He was stewed to the ears.
at stewed to the gills (adj.) under stewed, adj.1
[US] Dakota Farmers’ Leader (Canton, SD) 4 June 5/2: The senior Class of 1915 to show their appreciation for what high school has done for them in the way of leaving school with all they can store in their knowledge box, have purchased a drinking fountain as a monument.
at knowledge box, n.
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