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[US] Leavenworth Wkly Times (KS) 13 June 1/3: We cannot take lunk-heads, chowder-heads and cabbage-heads as figure heads this campaign.
at cabbage-head, n.
[US] Leavenworth Wkly Times (KS) 13 June 1/3: We cannot take lunk-heads, chowder-heads and cabbage-heads as figure heads this campaign.
at chowder-head, n.
[US] Leavenworth Wkly Times (KS) 13 June 1/3: We cannot take lunk-heads, chowder-heads and cabbage-heads as figure heads this campaign.
at lunkhead, n.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 21 Oct. 2/3: One of the ‘kitchen mechanics‘ deferred going.
at kitchen mechanic (n.) under kitchen, n.1
[US] Leavenworth Wkly Times (KS) 18 Feb. 2/1: If Mr King wishes to sue us for libel [...] we will send Quill-pusher Hine to meet him.
at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
[US] Leavenworth Wkly Times (KS) 27 Apr. 1/4: We must sell more than we buy. Then the rag baby and the gold dollar will both stand upon the same platform in peace.
at rag baby (n.) under rag, n.1
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 10 Apr. 2/4: His eyes are lustrous, furtive and percing, looking not unlike two burnt holes in a blanket.
at eyes like pissholes in the snow (n.) under eye, n.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 5 June 7/3: Queen Victoria sends £5 o every English mother on the occasion of her first twins. Doubtless she does not feel that it is incumbent upon her to offer a dollar premium for Irish twins.
at Irish twins (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 23 Feb. 4/7: [advert] The old lady who told the doctor she had the ‘Brown Critters’ when she only had the bronchitis.
at brown critters (n.) under brown, adj.2
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 14 Aug. 8/5: The trickery and flim-flammery of the mere place hunter.
at flimflammery (n.) under flim-flam, n.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 14 Dec. 4/3: ‘Sonk’ Gannon [...] fought a former city detective until the latter had worn out a club on his head.
at sonk, n.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 16 Mar. 2/3: That is spreading it on pretty thick but it may pay us all to watch and see.
at spread it thick (v.) under spread, v.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 29 Sept. 4/3: ‘The Imperials Abroad’, [...] composed mostly of women and heralded as a ‘girlie show’, played to a packed house of males at the Orpheum. There were some shapely young women .
at girlie show (n.) under girlie, adj.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 9 Apr. 6/5: He has been keeping in training by ‘hopping bells’ at the Baltimore Hotel.
at hop bells (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 14 Apr. 2/4: ‘That is true,’ laughingly replied the squawman, ’but remember that my wife and I are both in good health’.
at squawman, n.
[US] Leavenworth Times (KS) 20 Mar. 4/5: The fair price requirement [...] may become a hole thru which ruthless booze runners can drive a ten ton truck loaded wirh illegal stocks.
at booze runner (n.) under booze, n.
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