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[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 23 Nov. [synd. col.] [B]eating up our gums with Florence in the check room.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 7 Dec. [synd. col.] Where your bosom friend refers to your better-half as the old lady.
at better half, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 23 Nov. [synd. col.] ‘Fatso’ Graham and Marion Johnson [...] are sizzling so hot.
at fatso, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 26 Oct. [synd. col.] One of the girls was so mellow she decided to remove the one undergarment which she wore.
at mellow, adj.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 16 Nov. [synd. col.] Doothy Saunders and Teddy Butler are sticking like gravy on rice.
at like white on rice under rice, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 7 Dec. [synd. col.] The breakast dance [...] is just what the doctor ordered [...] if you have to collar Jim Slave the same day.
at collar Jim Slave (v.) under slave, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 26 Oct. [synd. col.] [He[ refused to contribute hiis share [...] if any part of it is used to spike (liquor to you) the punch.
at spike, v.2
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 23 Nov. [synd. col.] [I]n time to enjoy the torso-tossing of that charming lass. . . . Mae Murray.
at torso-tosser, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 26 Oct. [synd. col.] [T]he big Yellow ankle over to us to whisper, ‘That so-and-so tried to kill me’.
at yellow, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] The La Mar Cheri [...] enticed [...] their regular crowd of lovely lookers and too many seemed to be out with the wrong arm-hooker.
at arm-hooker (n.) under arm, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] [A] fine dinner breezed in and started to gumbeat with Cliff, the laughing soup mixer.
at gum beat, v.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 29 Aug. [synd. col.] [of a boxing match] Why was John Henry Lewis [...] present at the Louis-Sharkey blowout igged.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 16 May [synd. col.] He is bugs about the fight game.
at bugs on (adj.) under bugs, adj.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] Here are a few of the new phrases [...] ‘Cut ma legs off and call me shorty’ . . . . and ‘Knock me a pair of stilts and call me lanks’.
at — and call me — ! under call, v.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 15 Aug. [synd. col.] Henrietta Brown [...] a fine chirper.
at chirper, n.2
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 3 Oct. [synd. col.] A fighter can be made to change his mind about fighting if he hooks up with a good gal, but a dame will only clip him slightly and drop him.
at dame, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 3 Oct. [synd. col.] [headline] Digging and Dishing.
at dig, v.3
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 3 Oct. [synd. col.] [headline] Digging and Dishing.
at dish, v.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 22 Aug. [synd. col.] Night club biz is putrid but the class restaurants are doing okey-dokey.
at okey-doke, adj.1
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] Many of the local armbendwers were out making merry.
at elbow-bender (n.) under elbow, n.1
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 1 Aug. [synd. col.] When he fell in it took three transportation clerks [...] and two baggage men to get him aboard.
at fall in (v.) under fall, v.3
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] [T]his lovely lass digs the dirt from your feelers at Charity’s slick-’m and glick-’em shop.
at feeler, n.2
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 22 Aug. [synd. col.] The John McKenzies [...] are making feet for socks.
at make feet for children’s shoes (v.) under foot, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 16 May [synd. col.] 125th street shooting gallery [...] a liittle sepian tot [...] saying ’Ma, can I get my pitcher took too?’.
at shooting gallery, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 29 Aug. [synd. col.] James DeKine [...] and Pauline Brown [...] are testing the Harlem gigglewater.
at giggle-water (n.) under giggle, adj.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 2 May [synd. col.] Clare Campbell, the hip tosser, is back in town.
at hip-tosser (n.) under hip, n.3
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 1 Aug. [synd. col.] The chicks up in Harlem arte hipped to that jive.
at hipped, adj.2
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] Dick Seay [...] is still playing hookey in Harlem.
at play hooky, v.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 26 Sept. [synd. col.] Gamblers, mudkickers, numbers bankers, etc.
at mud-kicker, n.
[US] Archie Seale Man About Harlem 18 Apr. [synd. col.] [A] fine dinner breezed in and stated to gumbeat with Cliff, the laughing soup mixer.
at laughing soup (n.) under laughing, adj.
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