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[US] Deseret Eve. News (UT) 4 June 2/1: Frank Hofman and Eddie Smith [...] made the old professionals look like thirty cents worth of plugged nickels.
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] Deseret Eve. News (UT) 16 Oct. 3/3: Bibby Bishop’s Mexican ’mitt pusher’ is not so invincible after all.
at mitt-pusher (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Deseret Eve. News (Salt Lake City) 25 Oct. 9/4: Hart looks like a pushover to me.
at pushover, n.
[US] Deseret Eve. News (Salt Lake City, UT) 1 Jan. 7/7: One hundred and twenty-nine years is said to have been the age of ‘Aunt’ Dorcas Harris, a negro woman.
at aunt, n.
[US] Deseret Eve. News (UT) 3 July 3/3: [headline] Yankees Rubbernecking in London.
at rubberneck, v.
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