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[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 10 July 1/4: I want [...] beef steak and onions with a blind robin thrown in as a relish.
at blind robin (n.) under blind, adj.1
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 31 May 5/2: Bill says he’ no cigar sign [...] but he does like to draw the amber fluid through a great deal of tobacco.
at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 13 May 4/2: There is no such thing as paying too much for whistles - and harmony.
at pay (too much) for one’s whistle (v.) under pay, v.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 15 Mar. 1/2: Some farmers [...] gone follow the ‘ration trail’ like a blind dog after the gut wagon.
at gut-wagon (n.) under gut, n.
[US] Red Cloud (Webster Co., NE) 12 Feb. 7/5: The Fitzsimmons party was in a pretty bad way financially and was going to flunk out of the [...] bet with Corbett.
at flunk, v.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 23 Nov. 8/4: Woe unto us that we should see ‘our peerless leader’ [...] for the second time passed up, knocked out, dropped like a red hot Irish lemon.
at Irish lemon (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 1 Feb. 8/2: Why not mix the whole darned kerboodle medicine, powder, pills and capsules, in one of the jugs.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 11 May 3/3: It was nothing more than a glorification of that nigger-loving hound!
at nigger-loving (adj.) under nigger-lover, n.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Lincoln, NE) 2 Sept. 6/5: Uncle Mose aspired to the elective office of justice of the peace in the ‘black bottom’ part of town.
at black bottom (n.) under black, adj.
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 2 Dec. 5/4: Two gentlemen [...] were taken into custody [...] after a shooting affray at a ‘cat wagon’.
at cat wagon (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., Neb) 17 Jan. 3/2: After our Poles and hunyaks git educated an’ discard their hobnailed shoes [...] whose goin’ t’ take th’ kinkas out o’ th’ street car tracks?
at hunyak, n.
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