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[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 1 June 5/6: The gurgling of the faucet is the devil’s delight.
at devil’s delight (n.) under devil, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 25 Feb. 1/4: Who are those fellows riding those ‘canners’ (poor horses) up and down the street?
at canner, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 24 Feb. 1/5: [They] are hoping that the licensed saloon will be legislated out of business so that they can have a dog’s chance to be men.
at dog’s chance (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 3 July 7/2: Success in life bears a wide interpretation, rang from the free booze of the bar-fly to [etc.].
at bar-fly, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 4 Nov. 7/4: When a man gets a streak of luck - nigger luck - he don’t get tired.
at nigger luck (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 2 June 2/5: The public doesn’t give a brass mounted continental about methods.
at brass-mounted (adj.) under brass, adj.1
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 28 May 1/4: A number of witnesses made the remark that the President was a ‘Mutt Head’.
at mutthead (n.) under mutt, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 22 Dec. 7/3: It may not be as fast as trench poker [...] or as rapid as that ‘nigger golf’ we used to play.
at nigger golf (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 6 Sept. 3/5: We do not give a continental rap how the girls dress so long as their stockings are rolled at the top and do not wrinkle at the ankles.
at continental, adj.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 20 Jan. 8/4: he is a veritable fire-eater where his wife is concerned.
at fire-eater, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 27 Sept. 1/1: Cincinnati, the one time Porkopolis of the U.S.
at Porkopolis, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 6 Apr. 3/2: I couldn’t play a dew-dad that a feller has to pick... But they allers hears my hew-gag when I welt her with a stick.
at hewgag, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 24 Oct. 6/6: We would prefer to see the ivory pounder win the race.
at ivory-pounder (n.) under ivory, n.
[US] Mt Sterling Advocate (KY) 24 Oct. 6/6: If old Pil has the coin to fill the proletariat with enough of the sudski to get them seeing things his way he will beat Paderewski by a moonlight sonata.
at suds, n.1
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