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El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 19 Oct. 1/6: Supt. Hurley says [...] the first man caught violating the new law, will get it where the chicken got the axe.at get it where the chicken got the axe (v.) under get it, v.
El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 19 Oct. 1/6: Supt. Hurley says [...] the first man caught violating the new law, will get it where the chicken got the axe. El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 21 Dec. 4/3: For Uncle Sam’s bright $5 gold pieces the banks in Manila were paying 10 ’dobe dollars.at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 15 Feb. n.p.: ‘Jim Crow’ Miners Doing Too Much ‘Wind-Jamming’.at Jim Crow, adj.
El Paso Dly Herald (TX) 15 Feb. n.p.: ‘Jim Crow’ Miners Doing Too Much ‘Wind-Jamming’.at windjammer, n.1
El Paso Herald (TX) 26 Mar. 26/5: ‘You’re booboo, ain’t yer? Hi dunno what you’re talkin’ abaout.’ [...] ‘No, old chap, I’m not dotty’.at boo-boo, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 26 Mar. 26/5: Let’s have a decko at your pome.at dekko, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 15 Dec. 4/2: The beefy sports of Europe are coming to these shores, and soon their loud ki-yoodles will fill all out of doors.at kiyoodle, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 26 Mar. 26/5: The Duke was standing over him, quivering with rage and inviting him to get up and be ‘spifflicated’.at spiflicated, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 25 Feb. 4/2: I know of a dealer in pickles and tin, Who hates a glad spiel or the sight of a grin. / He prances the floor [...] scowls at his clerks / And seems to bne sore of the contwisted works.at contwisted, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 26 July n.p.: Never fiddle round and stall— / Hit the dirt!at hit the dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 30 Aug. 4/2: The union station was charged and taken [...] by a squad of ‘gravel crunchers’ known technically in the US service as marines of the navy.at gravel-crusher (n.) under gravel, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 26 July 6/3: As a result of [...] the hornswoggling deal put over on him.at hornswoggling, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 6 May 7/4: If that ain’t too much of a figure of speech to trickle through your ivory dome.at ivory dome (n.) under ivory, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 6 May 7/4: ‘He got three more poems refused by the magazine. He was that disconsolate’ [...] ‘Why don’t he make up his mind that he is a shine poet’.at shine, adj.3
El Paso Herald (TX) 4 Oct. 16/2: Spuds are cheaper. This good Irish fruit has come to the rescue of the common people.at Irish fruit (n.) under Irish, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 4 Oct. 16/2: Spuds are cheaper. [...] They were five cents per pound, those Irish lemons.at Irish lemon (n.) under Irish, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 18 June 9/6: Even Alibi Ike, the champion adjuster of low, brutal facts to rosy ideals, would be at a loss to explain.at alibi ike, n.
El Paso Herald 1 Mar. 23/7: The 1913 classs is considering a plan to have all the girl graduates dress in simple [...] gowns [...] instead of being dressed up like a sore thumb.at dressed up like a sore finger/thumb (adj.) under dressed, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 28 Mar. 9/1: Honest to Pete, Joe, if you don’t stop that yawning a bat will fly into the cave.at honest to Pete (adv.) under Pete, n.1
El Paso Herald 14 May 12/1: Games were no pink tea when you met the Baltimore gang.at pinktea, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 1 June 4/6: Miss Flax, who had stopped to lallygag came back 15 minutes later.at lallygag, v.
El Paso Herald 27 Apr. 4/3: [cartoon caption] Gimme a good, mild domestic rope.at rope, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 12 Oct. 7/3: The ‘ham and eggers’ will not do for main bouts.at ham-and-egger (n.) under ham, n.1
El Paso Herald (TX 8 May 20/2: We was all lit up like a church.at lit up like a Christmas tree (adj.) under lit (up), adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 23 Feb. 9/2: Jim Stewart was never ‘such-a-much’ as a fighter.at such-a-much, adj.
El Paso Herald (TX) 8 July 32/7: The elaborate list of American drinks [...] a ‘Corpse Reviver’, a ‘Hot Locomotive’.at corpse reviver (n.) under corpse, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 19 Aug. 19/1: Chris frankly admitted that he was the recipient of the much feared ‘dinky-dink’.at dinky-dink, n.
El Paso Herald (TX) 18 July 7/1: He will be so kerslostrated, not to say kerflummoxed, that he won’t know what to do.at kerflummox, v.
El Paso Herald (TX) 28 Dec. 9/1: Met Kid Broad in New York [...] after his eight hours working as a lens lizard.at lens lizard (n.) under -lizard, sfx
El Paso Herald (TX) 8 July 32/7: The elaborate list of American drinks [...] a ‘Corpse Reviver’, a ‘Hot Locomotive’.at locomotive, n.
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