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Winstead (MN) Herald 1 Nov. n.p.: The New York Evening Post defines the word ‘Skadaddle’ [...] as meaning ‘runaway’.
at skedaddle, n.
Herald (Glasgow) 5 Apr. n.p.: ‘Report of R.N.Y. Club.’ This vessel, (one of Fyfe’s cracks) being almost new, and coppered, will be free from the objectionable fouling which is so great a drawback to the use of iron yachts [F&H].
at crack, n.1
Herald (Glasgow) 28 Dec. n.p.: Not a word was said. I felt confoundedly cut [...] [F&H].
at cut, adj.2
Herald (Los Angeles) 19 Dec. 1/2: [headline] Highbinders Must Go. A Crusade Against Chinese Felons.
at highbinder, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 3 Sept. 11/2: The vistors [...] explained they wanted to smoke. ‘Bing goye ship goe san ah pin yen,’ muttered the Chinaman.
at pen yen, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: He was ugly as sin .
at ugly as..., adj.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/2: The judgement was for 5000, but I was bowled out by Dan.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: That executive meeting was a corker. De Kernel he had de floor [...] just giving the whole crowd Hail Columbia [...] He was as ugly as hell.
at hail Columbia, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/2: De only thing I am afraid of is dat de Kernel’s agents [...] is overplayin’ de hand — 9000 new names is corkin’ big work to go up against.
at corking, adj.
[US] Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/2: Higgins originated that scheme, and ain’t it a dandy?
at dandy, n.2
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: Mills was doing de right thing to cut off de revenue. That was de only way to put de gaff into the enemy.
at give the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: Fat Jack O’Connor [...] ‘Gimp’ Watson, ‘One-eyed’ Wallace and a whole raft of boarding-house runners and dive keepers.
at gimp, n.2
Herald (Los Angeles) 13 Feb. 3/2: [headline] Hard on the Hoosiers. Indiana Suffers Severely From the Effects of the Blizzard.
at hoosier, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: That made Dan wild and he jumped all over Mike [...] He accused Mike of being a traitor.
at jump, v.
Herald (Los Angeles) 25 Jan. 4: It has caused the arrest of a dozen offenders daily, but the nickel-grabbers are growing cautious.
at nickel grabber (n.) under nickel, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/2: A fellah wid a good scar is worth his weight in scads.
at scad, n.2
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: Say, you talk about being leary when you got the snakes. Why [etc].
at snakes, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: De Kernel was in his place fixin’ up some business about stuffin’ de great register.
at stuff, v.1
Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: That executive meeting was a corker. De Kernel he had de floor [...] just giving the whole crowd Hail Columbia [...] He was as ugly as hell.
at ugly, adj.
[US] Herald (Los Angeles) 28 Oct. 9/1: They don’t dare open their yap.
at yap, n.1
Herald (L.A.) 10 Nov. 18/2: It is a comfort to know that there are agents who deal in reach-me-down dramas, as there are dealers in ready-made garments.
at reach-me-down, adj.
Herald (Los Angeles) 12 June 4/2: In the city prison the women were thrown into one dark and stifling cell called the bird-cage.
at birdcage, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 9 Mar. 10/3: Mr Reid,[...] lighting a fine cigar said, ‘Hunkey Dorey’.
at hunky-dory, adj.
Herald (Los Angeles) 15 Mar. 18/7: I guess the old man must be a-drinking jackass brandy all night so he can bray all day.
at jackass, n.1
Herald (Los Angeles) 15 Mar. 18/6: In this era in pugdom [...] the putting up of props is now considered proper by the ‘profesh’.
at profesh, n.
Herald (L.A.) 14 Apr. 10/2: The chief was asked if he did not think the punishment would be greater if the men were fined their pay and kept at work, in other words, make them work for ‘dead horse’.
at dead horse, n.1
Herald (L.A.) 8 Jan. 3/4: The porch climber has not been idle [...] on Wednesday evening he got into a house [...] where he got away with a fine ladies gold watch.
at porch climber (n.) under porch, n.
[US] Herald (LA) 21 July 8/3: The Spanish Dons are madder than wet hens.
at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
Herald (Los Angeles) 19 June 22/1: He may have won the favor of the bong-tong but he has not yet succeeded in winning my favor.
at bong tong, n.
Herald (Los Angeles) 16 Mar. 4/6: [headline] Discombobulation in San Diego.
at discombobulate, v.
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