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Ogden Standard (UT) 21 Apr. 7/2: For the last few years [Jem] Mace has lived in an odd London tavern in Islington. Mace was seen there in the saw dust parlor [...] taking his evening meal.at sawdust joint (n.) under sawdust, n.2
Ogden Standard (UT) 21 Apr. 7/2: For the last few years [Jem] Mace has lived in an odd London tavern in Islington. Mace was seen there in the saw dust parlor [...] taking his evening meal. Ogden Standard (UT) 15 May 22/4: She’s a real woman then, not a plush horse.at plush horse, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 7 Mar. 12/2: The pickpocket [...] is known as [...] [...] a ‘cannon.’ Being ‘on the cannon is, in the lingo of thieves, equivalent to being a ‘high gun’ or in the higher realms of thievery.at on the cannon under cannon, n.2
Ogden Standard (UT) 15 Aug. 14/1: ‘They won’t gimmeachance’ piped love, inserting a smoked herring between his potato crunchers.at crunchers, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 7 Mar. 12/2: Hundreds of the ‘dip’ family are able to pose as reputable and respectable citizens.at dip, n.1
Ogden Standard (UT) 7 Mar. 12/2: The pickpocket [...] is known as [...] [...] a ‘cannon.’ Being ‘on the cannon is, in the lingo of thieves, equivalent to being a ‘high gun’ or in the higher realms of thievery.at high gun (n.) under gun, n.5
Ogden Standard (UT) 7 Mar. 12/2: The pickpocket [...] is known as [...] a ‘poke-getter,’ ‘leather nicker’ and [...] a ‘cannon’.at leather nicker (n.) under leather, n.
Ogden Standard 22 Aug. 13/1: It’s out of shoes for him and lickety cut across lots and fields to the big creek.at lickety-split, adv.
Ogden Standard (UT) 7 Mar. 12/2: Haynes is credited, in his craft, with being about the ‘high notch’.at notch, n.2
Ogden Standard (UT) 3 Apr. 13/6: I became known around the dives in Chicago as ‘The Needle King’.at needle, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 28 June 8/1: The news-hounds of the great dailies.at news hawk (n.) under news, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 20 Mar. 19/3: The leading lady [...] paring her finger nails by placing them carefully between [her] ‘pearly whites’.at pearly whites, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 16 Sept. 7/1: [advt] bug bug take her away. cadillac road louse. Painted red; only $250.00.at road louse (n.) under -louse, sfx
Ogden Standard (UT) 22 May 3/2: David could flirt his head off but [...] her governess turned blue if Gloria as much as mentioned a lover in a novel.at talk one’s head off (v.) under talk, v.
Ogden Standard (UT) 28 Apr. 22/1: The ‘young punk’ is a boy between 16 and 21 years old, awkward, callow, hoarse-voiced, inconceivably untidy, more inconceivably rude and [...] conceited.at punk, n.1
Ogden Standard (UT) 10 Mar. 4/2: Little Rastus started all right.at Rastus, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 27 Apr. 26/5: The poor mush-head who is enamoured of her refuses to play baseball at any place so distant [...] that he cannot see her at frequent intervals.at mush-head, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 17 Aug. 14/3: ‘What have you for breakfast?’ ’Ain’t but one kind of Kentucky breakfast,‘ the old negro replied a grin [...] ‘Jug of liquor, ar nice steak, an’ ar dog’.at Kentucky breakfast (n.) under Kentucky, adj.
Ogden Standard (UT) 1 Mar. 12/1: The Oaks will have one foxy left-hander to mix in with the northpaw flingers.at northpaw (n.) under north, adj.
Ogden Standard (UT) 18 May 5/2: The other day died [...] the man who a generation ago was known as ‘Old Probabilities,’ or more informally as ‘Old Probs’.at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
Ogden Standard (UT) 3 Aug. 2/1: [cartoon caption] These punko fumadoras soitnly make a pile o’ smoke.at punk, adj.
Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/3: The girls are known as ‘calicos, judies and jellybeans’.at jelly bean, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/4: Anything that is O.K. is always ‘Jake’ [...] ‘Doozy’ is easy or agreeable.at doozie, n.
Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/4: Wouldst Know the Language of Gob [...] For one to be ‘gowd up’ is to have too much liquor.at gowed (up), adj.
Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/3: The girls are known as ‘calicos, judies and jellybeans’.at judy, n.1
Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/4: Those who stay in bed are ‘bunk lizards’.at -lizard, sfx
Ogden Standard Examiner (UT) 24 Oct. 8/1: Miss Lucy was wholly ignorant of [...] the kind of man this blackguardly Prince really was.at blackguardly, adj.
Ogden Standard Examiner (UT) 22 Dec. 12/6: His manager overhard his words, and [...] on a charge of boobery, had him indicted.at boobery, n.
Ogden Standard Examiner (UT) 30 Aug. n.p.: It sounded exactly like three ‘kerchunks’ under the mud.at kerchunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Ogden Standard-Examiner (UT) 18 June 37/2: His mother is hot dog for dough but she’ll have to fight me.at hot dog, adj.1
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