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[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 15 Nov. 13/8: Laughs and gestures soon betrayed their owners [i.e. of disguises]. Mr Clifton Blue, as a mysterious Chinese, remained so for a hot minute.
at hot minute (n.) under hot, adj.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier 8 Mar. n.p.: This number [of 500 ‘colored cabarets’] is topped by statistics on the apartment speakeasies. Called ‘buffet flats,’ there is an average of two such joints for every apartment building.
at buffet (flat), n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 June 13/5: Snuffy rerturned. He was trembling and agitated. He got some whiskey.
at snuffy, adj.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 17/4: Ulma Banks [...] had the oride to resent an insult from an oorey-eyed soda jerker from the Savoy.
at ory-eyed, adj.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier 27 Jan. 13/7: That sensually mad crowd, packed like boozeheads in a cell in jail.
at booze-head (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 10 Nov. 6/7: [headline] ‘Mayor of Bronzeville’ Inauguration Proves To Be Gala Occasion.
at Bronzeville (n.) under bronze, n.2
[US] Pittsburgh Courier 10 Nov. 6/7: [headline] ‘Mayor of Bronzeville’s’ Inauguration proves to be Gala Occasion.
at Bronzeville, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 8 Aug. 19/3: Beat your crumb crushers on this: [etc].
at crumb-crusher (n.) under crumb, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 12 Mar. 11/1: The WPA publicity man [...] threatening to pull a Joe Louis on a visiting guest.
at pull a..., v.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 26 Feb. 11/1: Marshall Miles, Della’s big butter and milk man from Buffalo.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 30 July 11/1: I will be glad when we cut into the Apple so you and I can get together.
at Apple, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 26 Feb. 11/1: Tommy Brookins, who is serving thirty days in a European ballyhatch, will be deported when his time is up.
at ballyhatch, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 30 July 11/1: I will be glad when we cut into the Apple so you and I can get together and have a real old-fashioned gum-beat.
at gum beat, v.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: You stache your frame back to the P.A. and beef to the gang that the ‘Dark Eagle’ is in port.
at beef, v.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: Every time the idea cut through your conk-piece it gave you the creeps in your benders.
at bender, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 28 May 11/1: The line about the Cab Calloways three-ing seen in this corner first can be considered Bible.
at bible, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 23 July 11/1: [C]oppin’ his fine lung life in the early black.
at early black (n.) under black, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 12 Feb. 11/7: Laura Holland is making the rounds [...] with a well-known bandleader whose wife would pitch a boogie-woogie if she only knew.
at pitch a boogie-woogie (v.) under boogie-woogie, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: The real sender came when he booted ‘After You’re Gone,’ that sent the jitterbugs.
at boot, v.3
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 10 Dec. 11/1: Hugues Panassie, the French critic who thinks that racial hatred is so much bosh.
at bosh, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 23 July 11/1: The Bernie Wagner new suit creations are killer dillers.There’s not a bringdown in a whole cartload of ’em.
at bringdown, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 30 July 11/1: Jack, they just laid the buzzer on me so I must nix this scribe.
at buzzer, n.3
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 30 July 11/1: The ace canary of swing trucked to the P.A.
at canary, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 9 Apr. 11/1: It’s population is worshipping at the swing shrine [and] way down under [Boston’s] hoity-toity exterior there’s more than just a bit of ‘Cat’.
at cat, n.5
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 30 July 11/1: We trekked here to the Motor City [...] for seven brights in this fine gray auditorium.
at Motor City, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 22 Oct. 11/1: Stump and Stumpie are holding forth in the Quaker City after cancelling their European tour.
at Quaker City, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 6 Aug. 11/1: Jack, your spiel was a conk buster and I don’t mean perhaps.
at conk-buster (n.) under conk, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: Every time the idea cut through your conk-piece it gave you the creeps in your benders.
at conkpiece (n.) under conk, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 23 July 11/2: We leave you here to creep into our domicile [...] and bust our conks in slumberland.
at bust one’s conk (v.) under conk, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 23 July 11/1: Leonard Harper’s present local review cut anything’s he’s done in many moons.
at cut, v.5
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