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[US] Morning Star & Catholic Messenger (New Orleans) 21 June 8/4: The blacks are never called men and women and children. ‘Myalls’ and ‘niggers’ and ‘gins’ and ‘piccaninnies’ seem farther removed from humanity.
at myall, n.
[US] Morning Star (N.O.) 5 Apr. 2/3: From Maria Monk down to the latest pulpit-thumper, he will find them all on the make.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] Morning Star & Catholic Messenger (New Orleans) 21 June 8/4: Private persons go out to kill blacks and call it ‘snipe-shooting’ [...] ‘Shooting a snipe’ sounds better than ‘mudering a man’.
at snipe-shooting (n.) under snipe, n.1
[US] Morn. Star (N.O.) 7 Mar. 2/1: Nobody but that pumpkin-headed wife of mine is capable of that.
at pumpkin-headed, adj.
[US] Morn. Star & Catholic Messenger (NO) 26 Dec. 7/1: [If] we made our appearance with disordered dress or hair, we were sure to hear [...] ‘Like to an owl in an ivy bush’.
at like an owl in an ivy-bush under owl, n.
[US] Morn. Star & Catholic messenger (N.O.) 26 Mar. 3/3: This thingumbod there goes down through the hole and fastens the jigamaree, and that comes with the crinkum-crankum.
at jigamaree, n.
[US] Morn. Star & Catholic messenger (N.O.) 26 Mar. 3/3: This thingumbod there goes down through the hole and fastens the jigamaree, and that comes with the crinkum-crankum.
at thingumabob, n.
[US] L. Miller Morning Star 46: Beats hell outta me [...] I mean, I’m drivin' along, and all of a sudden, bingo! Everything just shuts down, like magic.
at beat (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
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