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Public Ledger & Dly Advertiser 16 Dec. 3/1: He cried out [...] ‘You too,’ to the mutes, ‘with your damnable faces’.at damnable, adj.
Public Ledger & Dly Advertiser 16 Dec. 3/1: He cried out [...] ‘You too,’ to the mutes, ‘with your damnable faces’. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 15 Apr. 3/6: He has more faith than history; hence he believes ‘that Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dock-yard.at when Adam was an oakum boy (in Chatham) under Adam, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 15 Oct. 1/2: [photo caption] The Old Black Mammy. ‘unt’ Sally Steptoe, who was nurse of the Bolling children.at Aunt Sally, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 13 Dec. 4/3: Are you a [...] swell-head, a puddin’-head or any other kind of head?at pudding-head, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 13 Dec. 4/4: The present puddin’-headed war which Henry Ford is stopping.at pudding-headed, adj.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 11 Dec. 24/1: Because [...] You Say Dot Roosevelt and Taft are Not Good friends, You’re Meshuga.at meshuga, adj.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 13 Dec. 4/3: Are you a [...] swell-head, a puddin’-head or any other kind of head?at swellhead, n.2
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 3 Oct. 11/1: The chatter and the crown and everything else proved to be very much hokum last night at the Olympia.at hokum, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 2 June 11/5: It isn’t romance [...] just plain, common ‘mushing’.at mush, v.2
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 2 June 11/5: Frizzle-headed females and putty-brained males gaze with eyes and mouths wide open.at putty-brained (adj.) under putty, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 1 Nov. 13/2: [headline] All The World And His Dog Are Going A-Gunning Today After Rabbits.at all the world and his wife, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 18 May 16/1: One Frisco scribe even went so far as to call the club the saddest ever seen [...] the players had been plucked from the marble orchard.at marble orchard (n.) under marble, adj.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 10 July 19/2: Wife: You know during these terrible times it is absolutely that we make great sacrifices. Husband: Oh, of course, but what I object to is that the cook’s making hers in the form of a burnt offering.at burnt offering, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 2 Dec. 21/5: [from Sydney Bulletin] ‘Look, Digger, it’s a bit hot you writing love letters to my wife ’.at bit hot, a (adj.) under hot, adj.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 3 Oct. 27: [cartoon caption] Petey — Sure, Hard Head — Iron Hat I guess I’ll get me a new roof.at iron hat (n.) under iron, adj.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 30 May 23/1: [pic. caption] ‘Jazzing up the works’ This watchful foreman permits no loafing on the job.at jazz up (v.) under jazz, v.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 24 June 11/7: The Brittons, ‘two jazzhounds’ [...] wind up a pleasant entertainment.at jazzhound, n.2
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 24 July 22/8: Peggy and Billy went kersouse into the water.at kersouse! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 17 May 8/5: The correct name for those round life-preserver shaped pastries is ‘doughnuts’.at life preserver (n.) under life, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 9 Dec. 9/6: Many of the spectators did not see the blow that laid the West Philadelphian low. It was a ‘sucker punch,’ as Nick Hayes would have it. [...] Murphy lifted his arms, crossing his right simultaneously, and zowie-- it was curtains.at sucker-punch, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 17 May 8/5: The paper currency of the government is a ‘Rag Baby’.at rag baby (n.) under rag, n.1
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 3 Oct. 27: [cartoon caption] Petey — Sure, Hard Head — Iron Hat I guess I’ll get me a new roof.at roof, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 18 Jan. 12/2: Dogs of high and low degree, including the dachshund or sausage dog.at sausage dog (n.) under sausage, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 13 Nov. 11/2: Greig being dead does not care a hell’s hoot what we say.at give a hoot (v.) under hoot, n.2
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 11 Aug. 7/1: When I saw an ambitious man courting favors and doing things to gain them, I said to myself, ‘This man gives too much for his whistle’.at pay (too much) for one’s whistle (v.) under pay, v.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 2 June 20/2: The Americans will pit their pedal-pushing skill against the two foreigners.at pedal-pusher (n.) under pedal, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 21 Jan. 14/1: Cuba would be a great place to train a ball club [...] I would like to have the phillies go down there.at Philly, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 26 Sept. 7/3: It is an afterclap of the August Furniture Sale [...] enormous selling from day to day.at after-clap, n.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 22 June 1/4: The Frankford ‘L’ [...] would be in operation next winter were it not for the ‘dilly-dallying and honeyfuggled’ tactics of the councilmen .at honeyfugle, v.
Eve. Public Ledger (Phila., PA) 7 June 13/2: Folly Wisher tumbled kerchug into a third furry cushion.at kerchug! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
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