1890 Kansas Agitator (Garnet, KS) 8 Sept. 1/3: Benny’s on the anxious bench wond’ring what to do / To build a little boomlet for 1892.at on the anxious bench (adj.) under bench, n.
1890 Kansas Agitator (KS) 18 Aug. 2/1: Why does he not get a curve on himself and do something for the people.at get a curve on (v.) under curve, n.
1890 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 1 Dec. 5: The New York panic [...] is now making proud financial houses that have stood the storms for decades lick the dust.at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
1890 Kansas Agitator (KS) 18 Aug. 2/1: What is that great gob Funston doing [...] writing bushels of private letters to friends and enemies alike, begging them to help him.at gob, n.1
1891 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 12 May 4/2: The state officers and the herd of county officers, all handing in their tithes of boodle to Sam Howe, the boodle-bag holder.at boodle bag (n.) under boodle, n.1
1891 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 28 July 5/1: Next year, John Sherman and the whole boodle outfit will be on the road.at whole boodle (n.) under boodle, n.1
1891 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 21 July 5/1: The coal men feel confident that they have a cinch on the trade.at have the cinch on (v.) under cinch, n.1
1891 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 10 Mar. 4/4: Every rum hole in Wall Street and in the country at large rejoice that [etc].at rum-hole (n.) under rum, n.2
1892 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 24 Mar. 4/3: It beats the devil we are not able to get a secretary of the treasury that can get it into his head that [etc.].at that beats the devil under beat, v.
1892 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 31 Mar. 6/3: The soft-handed dudes and duines of the world, who spend their time lolling around.at dude, n.1
1892 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 30 June 4/1: They selected as their tool the dish-faced pliable nincompoop who now occupies the presidential chair.at pie-faced, adj.
1892 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 18 Aug. 1/2: Bro. Routzong is a ‘shoulder-hitter’ and deals the old parties some telling blows.at shoulder-hitter (n.) under shoulder, n.
1893 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 16 Mar. 3/1: [He] is as pompous and big feeling [...] as a fussy old turkey gobbler.at big-feeler (n.) under big, adj.
1893 Kansas Agitator 11 May 1/2: The ‘boys’ have been having dead oodles of fun.at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
1894 Kansas Agitator 26 Apr. 3/2: A.G. Stacey sits in the amen corner of the Republican synagogue [...] and sent out daily to the Republican press a tissue of lies.at amen corner (n.) under amen, n.
1894 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 4 Jan. 1/3: We are sorry to see a ‘leading Populist paper’ holding back [...] until it sees ‘which the cat jumps’.at see which way the cat jumps (v.) under cat, n.1
1894 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 31 May 5/1: ‘Well, I’ll be dad-gummed!’ exclaimed the old gent.at dad-gum, adj.
1895 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 21 July 3/3: To dig a ditch through Panama, A hundred millions given.at big ditch (n.) under big, adj.
1895 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 3 Jan. 1/1: As a prohibitionist [he] very properly declined [...] the invitation to feast at the ‘brew factory’ as it was called on the invitation.at brew, n.
1896 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 3 Apr. 4/1: he caused the chief of police at Topeka to hunt another job because said chief tried to close up a high-toned ‘club’ or drunkery.at drunkery, n.
1897 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 19 Mar. 1/1: I am grateful for the opportunity of getting my bread by reputable employm,ent.at bread, n.1
1898 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 18 Nov. 1/2: It’s chairman, a beetle-headed bum [...] rattled around like a bean in a tin pail.at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
1903 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 18 Dec. 1/4: This seems to be an era of boodling and theft among men entrusted with power [...] Boodling and grafting is the order of the day.at boodle, v.1
1904 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 17 June 8/3: If you have any men who cannot afford to work for $1.25 per day, let them go, for there plenty of bohunks and dagoes anxious to work for that.at bohunk, n.
1904 Kansas Agitator (Garnett, KS) 4 Mar. 3/4: Great jehosiphat! Who ever heard of ribbons with bones before!at jehoshaphat!, excl.