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[US] Bridgeport Telegram (CT) 19 Oct. 14/2: If Chicago loses the east will grin and give western football the jolly old Bronx cheer.
at Bronx cheer, n.
[US] Bridgeport Teleg. (CT) 14 Sept. 12/4: Speaking about drummers, wasn’t Howard Goulden the cat’s pajamas at the Sousa concert.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] Bridgeport (CT) Telegram 21 Nov. 4/5: Nappy makes ebery point on de dice [...] – Little Joe, Feber in de South, Five and a Half, Sixty Days, Two Months and a Half, Eighter From Decatur [etc.].
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] Bridgeport (CT) Telegram 21 Nov. 4/5: De dice am clickin’ so fast you’d think you was in a telegraph office, and Nappy makes ebery point on de dice and some dat wasn’t on ’em – Little Joe, Feber in de South, Five and a Half, Sixty Days, Two Months and a Half, Eighter From Decatur, Eight and Three Quarters, Three Boxcars and the Caboose.
at little Joe (n.) under little, adj.
[US] Bridgeport Teleg. (CT) 24 May 31/4: The man once denounced as ‘Slick Dick’ Nixon by his enemies.
at slick dick (adj.) under slick, adj.
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