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[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 8 Aug. 3/2: Many of the 146 witnesses [...] told of ‘Hi-Jack’ or string-arm methods of the oragnization [i.e. the I.W.W.] [...] ‘Hi-Jack’ tactics were also used to increase membership [...] ‘Scissor-Bills,’ for non-members, were thrown from trains, locked in sheds [etc].
at hijack, n.
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 8 Aug. 3/2: Many of the 146 witnesses [...] told of ‘Hi-Jack’ or string-arm methods of the oragnization [i.e. the I.W.W.] [...] ‘Scissor-Bills,’ for non-members, were thrown from trains, locked in sheds [etc].
at scissorbill, n.
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 4 Mar. 27/4: He had kept a pure cache of ‘ and C’ for his own use.
at M and C, n.
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 4 Mar. 27/3: Many connoisseurs of such drugs [...] like to mix ‘coke’ and ‘snow, cocaine’ and morphine.
at snow, n.1
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 21 Dec. 4/5: ‘Rub o’ the Brush,’ a liquor that boiled if it spilled on the bar.
at brush, n.3
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 4 Mar. 20/3: [cartoon caption] My Dad went all through this in the Army. Put a guy in uniform and the girls go khaki-wacky.
at khaki-wacky (n.) under khaki, n.
[US] Orlando Eve. Star (FL) 11 Oct. 14/3: The council was about to ‘shangahi’ [...] or otherwise compel [...] residents to join up.
at shanghai, v.
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