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[US] Dial 47 104: We are not quite so sure about ‘Ticket-skinner,’' said to hail from New York; it may be as expressive as ‘Ticket scalper,’ but we have never heard it used on this side of the ocean.
at ticket-skinner (n.) under ticket, n.1
[US] Dial (Boston, MA) 64 391: We might as well admit that as talk this is ‘old hat’—like everything else we hear in ‘plays with a purpose’.
at old hat, adj.
[US] Dial 60-61 253: Byron, Shelley, and Leopardi could give aces and spades to any modernist and beat him in the revelation of the nudities of human nature.
at give aces and spades (v.) under ace, n.
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