1909 Coshocton Daily Times (OH) 26 Aug. 3/3: Are you going to have a regular knock-down-and-drag-out smash at St. George’s?at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 26 Aug. 3/3: I think Konstantin would like to have it [i.e. a wedding] in a chapel of ease in the Old Kent Road.at chapel of ease (n.) under chapel, n.
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 27 Aug. 8/7: That’s the way this Gazaboo knocked his town.at gazabo, n.1
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 27 Aug. 8/7: Why, hadn’t he lived Here since ’84 and found that the Place was punky? Sure, Mike!at Mike, n.
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 27 Aug. 8/7: The Town was No Good, he said – strictly on the Blink. Yes, it was N.G.at n.g., phr.
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 4 June 2/3: We’ve got the goods on any old bard / We can tear off Shakespeare by the yard.at tear off, v.2
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 27 Aug. 8/7: We’ve grown some, but I don’t see that we’re knocking any particularly Big Persimmons.at rake up persimmons (v.) under persimmon, n.
1909 Coshocton (OH) Daily Times 26 Aug. 3/3: Are you going to have a regular knock-down-and-drag-out smash at St. George’s?at smash, n.1