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[US] S.F. Bulletin 14 Mar. 20: Its sister organization, the oaks, is playing a colorless and sloppy article of ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] S.F. Bulletin 20 Mar. 17/2: Reese is one gentleman who can always look forward to a successful season if he only gets the ‘breaks.’.
at break, n.1
[US] S.F. Bulletin 16 May 18/2: Kid Mohler’s old friend, popularly known in baseball as ‘charley horse,’ is again the unwelcome visitor. The vet’s legs have been none too sound these couple years.
at charley horse, n.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 25 Mar. 16: Receptions have been accorded the Windy City braves on numerous occasions.
at Windy City, n.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 10 Mar. 17: The Texas boy, who refuses to stay fired, just put one over on the public, not forgetting the Sox at the same time.
at fire, v.2
[US] S.F. Bulletin 6 Mar. 16: Everybody has come back to the old town full of the old ‘jazz’ and they promise to knock the fans off their feet with their playing [...] What is the ‘jazz’? Why, it’s a little of that ‘old life,’ the ‘gin-i-ker,’ the ‘pep,’ otherwise known as the enthusiasm.
at jazz, n.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 21 Feb. 12: One hundred jitneys, fifty zanes, twenty questres, ten hicks or five dobies are to be distributed to the gentleman, lady, lad or lass who comes up with the best definition.
at jitney, n.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 21 Feb. 12: Like the fat man of tradition no one loves a ‘Moocher’. Everyone has at least idea of what a ‘Moocher’ is.
at moocher, n.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 17 Mar. 16/4: Then, too, there were the muffs that helped to pile up a lop-sided score for the visitors.
at muff, n.2
[US] S.F. Bulletin 29 Mar. 29: From the way the White Sox stacked up, one might have suspected that they were innoculated with the ‘jazz’ during their stay in the Valley of the Moon.
at stack up, v.1
[US] S.F. Bulletin 6 Mar. 16: Just let us tangle with Ed Walsh and these Chicago fellers a few times.
at tangle with (v.) under tangle, v.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 21 Feb. 12: One hundred jitneys, fifty zanes, twenty questres, ten hicks or five dobies are to be distributed to the gentleman, lady, lad or lass who comes up with the best definition.
at zane, n.2
[US] S.F. Bulletin Nov. q. in Black (1926) 322: I told Black several days ago that I would protect myself and ‘get’ him if he tried to ‘get’ me.
at get, v.
[US] S.F. Bulletin 20 May 8/5: The more human [...] amusement of of atching two men knock they whey out of each other.
at knock the whey out of (v.) under knock, v.
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