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Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 12 July 3/6: ‘Get off the earth,’ says the Prime Minister [...] And they must get.at get off the earth! (excl.) under get off, v.3
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 12 July 3/6: ‘Get off the earth,’ says the Prime Minister [...] And they must get. Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 4 Dec. 33/6: The Chinese [...] waited until they got a severe case of ‘dhoby itch’ in one of their laundries, and then selected a dozen garments from the infected ‘wash’ and sent them round to the Japanese laundry.at dhobi itch (n.) under dhobi, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 30 Apr. 10/3: Who besides a blooming idiot would n’t be boss dog if he could?at boss dog (n.) under boss, n.2
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 30 Apr. 10/3: One can see the boss Shanghai, who neither toils nor spins nor scratches for sustenance, but is Johnny-on-the-spot when some other rooster [...] unearths a worm.at johnny-on-the-spot, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 14 May 13/5: You are going, bag and baggage — the whole kit and caboodle of you.at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 16 July 31/2: [cartoon caption] ‘I tell yew, John Brown, this here tarnal business has got to tew stop’.at tarnal, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 9 Dec. 4/5: See that medder? / I’ve tramped it till I’m sore. / To find as I’m a deader, / It’s a moor.at deader, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 21 Jan. 4/6: If he should cry, ‘Dodgast the luck!’.at dodgast...! (excl.) under dod, n.1
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 7 Oct. 48/2: Your head would swim if I told you the number of doubloons they spend in a year.at doubloon, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 7 Apr. 6/5: Many of these editors are ‘Locoed’ from hate of anyone who will note instantly obey the ‘demands’ of a labor union.at loco/loca, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 8 Dec. 2/7: [headline] Caught Smuggling Package of Cocaine into City Jail. Bundle of ‘Sugar’ was too small and Trusty pounced.at package, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 8 Dec. 2/7: [headline] Caught Smuggling Package of Cocaine into City Jail. Bundle of ‘Sugar’ was too small and Trusty pounced.at sugar, n.5
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 21 July 24/1: And Her Airy-Fairy Name was Maud!at airy-fairy, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 55/4: Conover worked some blackguardism [...] his chairman tried the ‘backdoor’ act.at backdoor act (n.) under back-door, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/2: ‘I’ve an idea we can work the same old “snap” move in more ’n half of them [i.e. electoral districts] [...] work the “back door” the way we did in Bowden county’.at work the back door (v.) under back-door, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 55/1: ‘You must think the Boss is as balmy in the belfry as you blue lobsters’.at belfry, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/4: ‘This blowout to-night [...] will get in the Boston [...] and New York papers’.at blow-out, n.1
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 56/4: ‘I’m waiting to see what dirty game Conover will play’.at dirty, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 30 June 35/3: They called them Lobsters, Rum-dumb Bums, / And every mean old name.at rum-dum, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/3: ‘I hear those dagoes of yours are grouching again.’ [...] ‘They say all the good jobs go to the Irish’.at grouch, v.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 30 June 35/1: The Jack Tars had been out so long / Upon the bounding Brine.at jack tar, n.1
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 30 June 35/3: But what cared they, the Jolly Dogs. / They thought they were quite knowing.at knowing, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 55/1: ‘You must think the Boss is as balmy in the belfry as you blue lobsters’.at lobster, n.1
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/3: That’s the racket this time. Guy the whole League crowd, ‘Silk Stockings vs. Laboring Man.’ That’s the idea.at racket, n.1
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/1: ‘There, now, don’t get red. What harm is there in being found out?’’.at get red (v.) under red, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/4: ‘Will I give the boys the office to rough-house the joint?’.at roughhouse, v.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/4: ‘To-night’s the big rally [...] and he’s callin’ this the biggest scream of the campaign so far’.at scream, n.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 6 Jan. 53/4: ‘I suppose they’ve scuppered poor old Swizzle-Stick Smith all right’.at scupper, v.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 10 Mar. 53/4: ‘Hundred ’n ten thousand [...] An’ every sould of them solid for you, Boss’.at solid, adj.
Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 21 Nov. 1/7: It is nothing more nor less than the good old ‘hog and hominy’ doctrine.at hog and hominy (n.) under hog, n.
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