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[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: She [...] came back with the ace by sending him a letter that smelled like a drug store.
at ace, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/3: Love’s young dream received some gosh-awful jars.
at gosh-awful, adj.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: He was bugs on dancing.
at bugs on (adj.) under bugs, adj.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: She was a nice girl, but she despaired of catching on at home.
at catch on, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: One day a new corkerina struck the town.
at corker, n.2
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: When Corkerina went home she had the Sleekest Thing going like a runaway freight train.
at have someone going (v.) under go, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: He passed up the home girls as though they were pikers.
at homegirl, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: He was a lovely twostepper but said none of the bunch could keep step with him.
at lovely, adj.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: They could glide forty times around a hall without losing step [...] and the result was that they both made a mash.
at make a mash (v.) under mash, n.1
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: He passed up the home girls as though they were pikers.
at pass, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: He passed up the home girls as though they were pikers.
at piker, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/3: In the dapple iron grey of the morning, before she was arrayed in her war paint and gimcracks, the frayed edges stuck out like door knobs.
at war-paint (n.) under war, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 Aug. 7/2: Things were getting too warm to keep much longer without fermenting. In fact their letters began to burn holes in the mail sacks.
at warm, adj.
[US] Alaska Citizen 13 May 3/1: When I had finished tipping the stewards I came ashore with my pockets hanging out to show that I hadn’t knocked down anything for myself.
at knock down, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 13 May 3/2: A map of all the London ‘tubes’ looks like a ground plan of the small intestine.
at tube, n.1
[US] Alaska Citizen 21 July 6/3: Buckingham Palace, with the Princess, is always ‘Buck House’.
at Buck House, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: You never will land a Johnny-boy that’s got enough gray matter in his cupola to want a real, bang-up flossy lady for his kiddo.
at cupola, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: You betcher sweet life I’ve cut the mustard.
at cut the mustard, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: She never gets closer to [a lady] than [...] when some swell dame buzzes past in her gas-wagon.
at gas wagon (n.) under gas, n.1
[US] Alaska Citizen 21 July 6/4: Fashion never made a better ‘hit’ than when she originated the stock cut with points at the sides.
at hit, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: You never will land a Johnny-boy that’s got enough gray matter in his cupola to want a real, bang-up flossy lady for his kiddo.
at kiddo, n.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: A skirt that palavers like a brain-storm with busted steerin’-gear.
at palaver, v.
[US] Alaska Citizen 28 July 8/4: Where do you think you’ll wind up if you don’t slough this rough stuff you’re shovin’ across.
at slough, v.
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