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[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 1 Jan. 2/1: A.L. Melgs skips out with a warrant in his wake.
at skip out (v.) under skip, v.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 2 Apr. 4/4: Nice warm days, said he then, as the sweat rag was applied vigorously.
at sweat rag (n.) under sweat, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 26 June 8/4: Let every American drink deep [...] to His Nibs, the Soda Jerker.
at jerker, n.1
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 13 June 11: Asked who could have been chosen instead by unperceptive authorities. ‘Swotters’ answered their visitor.
at swotter, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 5 Aug. 12/2: He could live fifty-eleven years a benedict without ever thinking of it if left to his own devices.
at fifty-eleven, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 25 Sept. 4/2: ‘Knock the stuffing out of me, will he?’ I’ll tear him limb from limb!‘.
at knock the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 22 Oct. 11/8: ‘How can you stand Ferdie? He’s such a big stick’.
at big stick (n.) under stick, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 26 June 7/3: I am going to look into my think-box and sort and discard that which doesn’t count.
at thinkbox (n.) under think, v.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 5 July 23/1: When you unload your troubles on a friend [...] you are ‘singing the blues’.
at sing the blues (v.) under blues, n.1
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 6 June 5/3: A colonel cannot let his regiment retreat whenever the enemy pops a cap.
at pop a cap (v.) under cap, n.2
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 10 June 16/5: Daniels drifted with the ‘push’ [...] for twenty-five years [and] dropped from a ‘long stake man’ to a ‘short stake man’.
at stake-man (n.) under stake, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 6 Jan. 5/1: A healf-hearted argument develops [...] talky-talky-talk, as lear would say crazily .
at talky-talk, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 17 Aug. 12/5: A scarlet scandal is spread across the front page of ther scream sheet.
at scream sheet (n.) under sheet, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 29 Mar. 2/5: Other demands of the prisoners [...] Dismissal of all guards that ‘we can prove to be sadists of head-beaters’.
at headbeater, n.
[US] Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 18 Oct. 48/1: Mirrison, a democrat, demonstrated ‘stick-to-it-iveness’.
at stick-to-it-iveness (n.) under stick to, v.
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