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[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 26 Apr. [synd. col.] He has several big [publicity] accounts and his three ‘aces’ are the proctor Gmable, Jimmy Lunceford [...] and Chilton and Thomas.
at ace, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 4 Oct. [synd.col.] ‘Mac’ Baker: You have an ‘ace’ coming to you for those two ducats.
at ace, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] I told the smart aleck that he was imitation of life!
at smart aleck, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] Damasqua Baker and Hilton (YMCA) Meyers are closer tha one and two.
at ...one and two under close as..., adj.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 5 Apr. [synd. col.] The perfomers would still be prowling the street [...] trying to cash a beg.
at cash a beg under beg, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 31 May [synd.col.] She’s up on society doings in this man’s town. So h’ep me..
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 3 May [synd. col.] Dick Drewery was seen with a cutie the other sun-up.
at cutie, n.1
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 17 May [synd.col.] Billie Hayward’s party [...] was a dawg.
at dog, n.2
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 5 Apr. [synd. col.] I think she should have let you know if everyhing was oakie-doakie.
at okey-doke, adj.1
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] [They] are not used to such a ‘break’ in the newspaper columns. I don’t think.
at I don’t think, phr.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 4 Oct. [synd.col.] Don’t think it bezarre [sic] to see the Montgomery college grads in a ‘freak’ joint.
at freak, adj.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 26 Apr. [synd. col.] That bit of hi-hatting has Hollywood reporters guessing.
at high hat, v.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 5 Apr. [synd. col.] There’s a Sugar Hill ‘hot’ spot that wants [...] a piano plunker who can ‘beat it out’.
at Sugar Hill, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] Harlem, as this tripe is being knocked out, is a hot bed [...] the fever for another race riot is at a high pitch .
at hotbed (n.) under hot, adj.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 26 Apr. [synd. col.] Harlem’s ‘hot’ spots are not doing so hot.
at hot, adv.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 31 May [synd.col.] It will be nice to take the boys Harlem ‘hot-spotting’.
at hot spot, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 26 Apr. [synd. col.] From the reports [...] Lewis is ‘hot stuff’.
at hot stuff, n.2
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 31 May [synd.col.] Jack would be diggin’ up more inside dope on this Lewis chap.
at inside dope (n.) under inside, adj.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 11 Oct. [synd. col.] I heard Saratoga Springs was ‘jumpin’’.
at jump, v.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] ‘Barnett wants [illeg.] to knockout [sic] a column for the Associated Negro Press’.
at knock out, v.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 11 Oct. [synd. col.] ‘Joe Louis [...] latched himself some rails and showed all Detroit that ‘tin’ can be turned into gold .
at latch, v.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 27 Sept. [synd.col.] No more taking ‘my correct lumps’.
at take one’s lumps (v.) under lump, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 5 Apr. [synd. col.] The Apollo em-cee is getting too much around the waist’.
at M.C., n.1
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 29 Mar. [synd. col.] Your N.Y. correspondent merely shrugged his shoulders and mugged a ‘Ah, skip it!’.
at mug, v.1
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 4 Oct. [synd.col.] He scanned the ‘pillars’ (columns to you) of his rivals.
at pillar, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 5 Apr. [synd. col.] There’s a Sugar Hill ‘hot’ spot that wants [...] a piano plunker who can ‘beat it out’.
at plunker, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 4 Oct. [synd.col.] Tillie’s [...] which opened a fortnight ago is ‘popping’.
at pop, v.1
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 11 Oct. [synd. col.] ‘Joe Louis [...] latched himself some rails and showed all Detroit that ‘tin’ can be turned into gold .
at rail, n.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 12 Apr. [synd. col.] Young being sent up to serve from 10 to 20 years.
at send up (v.) under send, v.
[US] Ted Yates This Is New York 3 May [synd. col.] That cocktail soiree at the Danceland [...] was a ‘sender’.
at sender, n.
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