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[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 31 Mar. 19/3: Apple butter [...] This utensil was in great demand [...] for comoounding the winter’s allowance of ‘Pennsylvania Salve’.
at Pennsylvania salve (n.) under Pennsylvania, adj.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 1 Jan. 10/7: It was the same old Billy Barlow knife his mother had given him thirty years before.
at billy barlow, n.2
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 7 June 8/3: Parker [...] hit the Eyetalian [..] the Eytalian’s monkey [...] made a jump for him.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 19 Jan. 12/5: Lime Peterson had a ringtail peeler of an earache Saturday night.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 5 Jan. 5/7: [headline] first train under river Initial trip Through Hudson Tube Proves Successful.
at tube, n.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 23 June 2/3: Chung Sin knew what happened in the rooms over Sun Leong’s chop-suey house in Eighth avenue [...] he knew the customs of the chop-suey place.
at chop suey joint (n.) under chop suey, adj.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 1 Aug. 38/3: He went over to extend an invitation to the whole kit and boiling of them.
at whole kit and biling (n.) under whole kit, n.
[US] Wash. Herald 3 Jan. 36/5: He tuk after the fox lickety-clip.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] Wash. Herald 6 July 8/1: Hughes and groom worked for the visitors, the latter displaying form that was quite spiffy.
at spiffy, adj.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 14 Feb. 6/1: It likewise is true that it gets hotter than Dick’s hatband in the summer.
at Dick’s hatband, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 11 Sept. 19/3: You-all can win my dist and dirt, but nary one of my dawgs.
at dirt, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 22 July 5/1: ‘And that jigamaree of complicated little silver sieves?’ ‘A novelty’.
at jigamaree, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 19 June 8/5: Those assigned to the ‘lobster shift’ in the proof room are [etc.].
at lobster shift (n.) under lobster, n.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 11 Sept. 19/5: Name your snake-juice, you-all — the winner pays.
at snake juice (n.) under snake, n.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 28 May 33/3: I’ll crimp his dome.
at crimp, v.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 28 May 33/3: I’ll crimp his dome.
at dome, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 28 July 4/5: Got a bustin’ good bunch over the in the bleachers today.
at busting, adj.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 18 Feb. 21/1: At what moment the associatgion will blow off the lid of convention and resort to primordial discussion [...] no man has ever been able to guess .
at blow the lid off (v.) under lid, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 18 Mar. 10/2: Washington’s ‘underworld’ is composed of [...] fallen women [...] joy riders, and mission ‘bums’.
at mission stiff (n.) under mission, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 28 July 4/4: She [...] called little Morgan a ‘peacherine’.
at peacherino (n.) under peach, n.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 17 Mar. 2/2: ‘Come on, fellows, brace up [...] remember now, no “shacking”’.
at shack, v.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 4 Aug. 9/1: The party will [...] get astride the ‘Rocky Mountain Canaries’ (burros) and ride through the South Cheyenne Canon.
at Rocky Mountain canary (bird), n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 23 Feb. 14/2: About 150 are expected to break bread and crack a bottle in memory of Fair Harvard.
at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 20 July 37: [cartoon caption] Grandpa Can Certainly ‘Hoof it’ Some.
at hoof, v.
[US] Wash. Herald 19 Nov. 10/1: The baltimore mitt pusher [...] flopped on the canvas and referee O’Connor counted him out.
at mitt-pusher (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 1 Feb. 26/1: A feud between Jacob Bimbo anbd Jacob Inski [...] was settled today by Judge Dingbats.
at bimbo, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 11 Jan. 34/2: ‘Buy me a ticket,’ I called to the astonished ‘chopper’ as I tossed a dollar bill.
at chopper, n.1
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 1 Feb. 26/1: A feud between Jacob Bimbo anbd Jacob Inski [...] was settled today by Judge Dingbats.
at dingbats, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 5 Mar. n.p.: He had not brought his dress suit [...] he had no idea he would use a monkey suit while at training camp.
at monkey suit, n.
[US] Wash. Herald (DC) 11 Jan. 34/2: He must have seen the night-hawk cab [...] that sodden-leathered nighthawk went placidly rolling up Fifth Avenue.
at nighthawk, n.
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