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Seattle Star (WA) 29 Apr. 1/4: The young people [...] took French leave.at French leave, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 29 Apr. 1/4: The young people [...] took French leave. Seattle Star (WA) 19 Oct. 2/1: The word goes out that this bird’s one of the warmest babies on the race track.at bird, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 19 Oct. 2/1: The ‘clocker’ gets out before dawn and [...] clicks the time in which every extended horse breezes through the stretch.at clocker, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 19 Oct. 2/1: The word goes out that this bird’s one of the warmest babies on the race track.at warm baby (n.) under warm, adj.
Seattle Star (WA) 3 Apr. 4/1: An evening is not half long enough to wade through a blanket sheet, and extract from it the news which it contains.at blanket, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 20 May 4/1: The boys from [...] Yazoo City and Walla Walla drifted to the big burg and in six weeks they proclaimed themselves New Yorkers.at big burg (n.) under burg, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 3 Nov. 4/1: In Spokane at present I.W.W. stands for I Won’t Work.at I Won’t Work, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 27 Apr. 4/1: Under the appetizing title of ‘Lobster Palace Society’ Julian Street [...] satirizes that portion of New York’s population which forgathers nightly in the vicinity of Times Square.at lobster-palace society (n.) under lobster, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 29 Oct. 3/3: The Australian Wheelers are comedy cyclists.at wheeler, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 16 Aug. 1/6: The lugged him off the to ‘factory,’ and told him that the U.S. mint was a piker joint compared to this.at piker, adj.
Seattle Star (WA) 16 Aug. 1/6: Strong Arm Jake [...] McLaurin says he will sue ‘King’ Jake for his ‘rough stuff’ methods.at rough stuff, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 16 Dec. 2/4: The cards were black jacks and eights — the ‘dead man’s hand’ of poker.at dead man’s hand (n.) under dead man, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 4 June 3/6: [advert] All the flim-flammery that compels merchants to ask big profits in the way of luxurious fittings and other expensive acccessories.at flimflammery (n.) under flim-flam, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 3 June 7/3: [headline] Umpi Slips One Over the Boys.at ump, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 23 Feb. 1/3: [picture caption] Corner in bedroom of the Belmont Ave. ‘badger house’ [...] where wealthy men were lured by unscrupulous ‘sirens’ and photographed for blackmailing purposes.at badger house (n.) under badger, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: ‘The gimp was doing the royal with some clover-kicker at the next board.’ [The boss was entertaining a friend from the country at the next table].at clover-kicker, n.
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] He fanned me like I was a Wilbur, but I was Jake to his play; he thought I might try to work a crash.at crash, n.1
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] I’ll lay a cutter to a meg he made you before buttons took your flogger [I’ll bet a cent to a dollar that he recognised you before the hat boy reliecved you over your overcoat].at cutter, n.6
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] Hesitate, hesitate, boy, you’re drifting. [Just a minute, just a minute, boy, you’e full of cocaine].at drift, v.2
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] I’ll lay a cutter to a meg he made you before buttons took your flogger [I’ll bet a cent to a dollar that he recognised you before the hat boy reliecved you over your overcoat].at flogger, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: ‘The gimp was doing the royal with some clover-kicker at the next board.’ [The boss was entertaining a friend from the country at the next table].at gimp, n.1
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! ‘What do you say to papering the hoop and kicking the gong?’ ‘K.O.!’.at kick the gong around (v.) under gong, n.2
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] He fanned me like I was a Wilbur, but I was Jake to his play; he thought I might try to work a crash.at jake, adj.1
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! ‘What do you say to papering the hoop and kicking the gong?’ ‘K.O.!’.at k.o., adj.
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! ‘What do you say to papering the hoop and kicking the gong?’ ‘K.O.!’.at paper, v.
Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: ‘The gimp was doing the royal with some clover-kicker at the next board.’ [The boss was entertaining a friend from the country at the next table].at royal, n.2
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] He didn’t give you a rumble.at rumble, n.1
Seattle Star 11 Nov. 8/3: Key to Broadway Slang! [...] He fanned me like I was a Wilbur, but I was Jake to his play; he thought i might try to work a crash.at Wilbur
Seattle Star (WA) 13 July 2/5: Sugar is ‘sand’; beef ‘canned Willie’; milk, ‘canned cow’; bacon is ‘overland trout’ .at overland trout, n.
Seattle Star (WA) 26 June 8/1: Kilbane [...] a merciless punisher when his title has been threatened.at punisher, n.
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