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[US] Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 14 July 7: (?) [Cartoon: ‘Them Was the Happy Days’ by C. V. Dwiggins] You always did dress like a wimp [...] remember that pinafore with the big pearl buttons ha! ha! ha!
at wimp, n.1
[US] Syracuse Herald 27 Mar. 8/3: ‘Postolutely you’re right!’ Gus declared, also giving Mr. Blodger a scornful glance. ‘As long as he loses his money I’ll shake dice with him, but socially I wouldn’t have anything to do with him. Absotively and postolutely not!’.
at absotively, adv.
[US] Syracuse Herald 27 Mar. 8/3: ‘Postolutely you’re right!’ Gus declared, also giving Mr. Blodger a scornful glance. ‘As long as he loses his money I’ll shake dice with him, but socially I wouldn’t have anything to do with him. Absotively and postolutely not!’.
at posilutely, adv.
[US] in Syracuse Herald 29 July n.p.: This is surely one great life. We call it the life of Riley. We are having fine eats, are in a great detachment and the experience one gets is fine.
at life of Riley, n.
[US] Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 Oct. 4: Some chaps are born great, others get that way and still others have spotlights thrust upon ’em. But there is still a crushing percentage of wimps that will never run one, two, three in the Greatness league.
at wimp, n.1
[US] Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 27 Mar. 8: Anna Pinkweed, tiring of her home town, Bogash, O., goes to New York to really live [...] Thus Anna was left with the bewhiskered Sugar Daddy who wanted the knife.
at sugar daddy, n.
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