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Tacoma Times (WA) 28 Dec. 3/5: The 18-Karat gumshoe stars of the New York detective force are frothing at the mouth.at eighteen-carat, adj.
Tacoma Times (WA) 28 Dec. 3/5: The 18-Karat gumshoe stars of the New York detective force are frothing at the mouth. Tacoma Times (WA) 28 Dec. 3/6: ‘But I can’t get the fist,’ objected Jim. ‘Practice it, you flatty!’.at flattie, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 28 Dec. 3/5: The 18-Karat gumshoe stars of the New York detective force are frothing at the mouth.at gumshoe, adj.
Tacoma Times (WA) 28 Dec. 3/5: Mable Parker watched the gum-shoe men on the stand, heard them tell how they has trapped her, and laughed.at gumshoe, adj.
Tacoma Times (Wash.) 7 June 3/3: I was ‘played for a stool’ — suspected of being an informer.at play for, v.
Tacoma Times (Wash.) 7 June 3/3: They recognized in me a ‘punk’ or greenhorn who was willing to learn [...] they were known thieves.at punk, n.1
Tacoma Times (Wash.) 7 June 3/3: I was ‘played for a stool’ — suspected of being an informer.at stool, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 4 Nov. 5/1: He got madder than a wet hen when Stewart intimated [etc.].at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
Tacoma Times (WA) 22 Oct. 1/4: Ivanow had three Canadian $50 bills in the bundle stolen from him.at bundle, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 25 Nov. 4/5: Tom Murchison raised that awful Turk’s sword and brought it down kerwollop—.at kerwhallop, adv.
Tacoma Times (WA) 27 Oct. 4/1: A boodler of the Old-Guard lay out there in the street, / There was a lack of boughten ballots when they knocked him off his feet, / [...] / He had the dough before they binged him on the rind.at bing, v.2
Tacoma Times (WA) 8 July 2/2: A close friend of the black champion [...] promises that ‘San Juan Hill’, New York’s colored belt, will ‘agitate’ when [Jack] Johnson comes to town.at San Juan Hill, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 6 Aug. 2/3: World famous athletes [...] have been ordered to ‘pound the pavement,’ the same as policemen.at pound the pavement (v.) under pound, v.2
Tacoma Times )Wash.) 22 Apr. 3/2: Revenue officers have [...] captured so much ‘wildcat’ whisky that the custom house [...] smells of ‘corn likker’.at wildcat, n.
Osgar und Adolf [comic strip] in Tacoma Times 27 Feb. 4: Diss moosik box shoult make you der orders plain, Adolf. For instance ven id plays ‘Old Black Joe’ id means coffee mitoudt cream.at joe, n.4
Tacoma Times (WA) 6 June 2/3: Things that fit a man for residence in the laughing academy.at laughing academy (n.) under laughing, adj.
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: ‘Adam and Eve’ of course means two eggs [...] ‘close their eyes’ means pouring water [...] with fried eggs it means turned over.at Adam and Eve, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: ‘Shipwrecked’ eggs are scrambled.at Adam and Eve, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 10 Aug. 3/1: The famous ‘badger game’ is one of the absorbing themes of the play. [...] There is ‘Frisco’ Kate, Leland, the badger man [etc.].at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 10 Aug. 3/1: The famous ‘badger game’ is one of the absorbing themes of the play. [...] There is ‘Frisco’ Kate, Leland, the badger man [etc.].at badger-man (n.) under badger, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 25 Dec. 1/1: reports from eastern cities today say that all of the big burgs are tied up in blizzards.at big burg (n.) under burg, n.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 26 Dec. 4/3: Adrianopole is forced to eat dog. Imagine finding a tag in your stew.at eat dog (v.) under eat, v.
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: A ‘string of flats’ is a plate of hot cakes.at flats, n.2
Tacoma Times (WA) 11 jan. 5/6: Why not do away with the ‘lallygag’ part of it [...] If you each love as you should to marry, you will be willing to wait.at lallygag, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 31 Dec. 2/5: Butch Christian and Ed Morrell, said to be pretty clever mitt artists, will make it pretty interesting for four rounds.at mitt artist (n.) under mitt, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 24 Jan. 4/1: Look at the simpering, wall-eyed, peanut-headed thing in trousers by that girl’s side.at peanut-head (n.) under peanut, n.
Tacoma Times (Wash.) 26 Sept. 2/4: Do you know who I am? I’m Ripsnorter Rufus from Cayenne Gulch!at rip snorter, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: A ‘sheenee funeral’ is an order of pork chops.at sheeny funeral (n.) under sheeny, n.
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: A ‘short and sweet’ denotes a small steak, blood rare.at short and sweet (n.) under short, adj.1
Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: ‘Spokane’ [...] means pork and beans.at Spokane, n.
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