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[US] H. Kemp ‘Carrying the Banner’ in Cry of Youth 2: [title of poem] Carrying the Banner [Which is tramp-argot for walking the street all night].
at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
[US] H. Kemp ‘The Harvest Fly’s Complaint’ in Cry of Youth 71: Try to catch a freight and leave, but find they’ve closed down tight / On letting hoboes beat their way, and jug them left and right.
at beat one’s way (v.) under beat, v.
[US] H. Kemp ‘Cashing In’ in Cry of Youth 75: O, my chum cashed in like a feeble match quenched by a gust of wind.
at cash in, v.
[US] H. Kemp ‘Away from Town’ in Cry of Youth 78: I’d put up in the Bowery for nights in a ten-cent bed / Where the dinky ‘L’ trains thunder and rattle overhead.
at el, n.1
[US] H. Kemp ‘The Harvest Fly’s Complaint’ in Cry of Youth 71: Try to catch a freight and leave, but find they’ve closed down tight / On letting hoboes beat their way, and jug them left and right.
at jug, v.1
[US] H. Kemp ‘Cashing In’ in Cry of Youth 75: He has mooched it on from star to star.
at mooch, v.
[US] H. Kemp ‘The Harvest Fly’s Complaint’ in Cry of Youth 72: And, Pard, I’m getting sick of it—the way they treat us men.
at pard, n.
[US] H. Kemp ‘Cashing In’ Cry of Youth 75: No more he’ll stretch across the rods or ride the cramped brake-beam.
at rod, n.
[US] Harry Kemp ‘Away from Town’ in Cry of Youth 78: [I] made a streak for the ferry.
at streak, n.
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