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Forward, March choose

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[US] K. Munroe Forward, March 28: Had breakfast hours ago [...] Scouse, slumgullion, hush puppy, dope without milk, and all sorts of things.
at dope, n.1
[US] K. Munroe Forward, March 21: That is a term common to ‘doughboys’.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] K. Munroe Forward, March 217: That’s their lookout, not mine.
at lookout, n.
[US] Kirk Munroe Forward, March 29: You see she’s a Mexican—what Mark Twain would call a ‘genuine Mexican plug’.
at plug, n.3
[US] K. Munroe Forward, March 20: Have you enlisted under the banner of the screaming eagle?.
at screaming eagle (n.) under screaming, adj.
[US] K. Munroe Forward, March 28: Had breakfast hours ago [...] Scouse, slumgullion, hush puppy, dope without milk, and all sorts of things.
at slumgullion, n.
[US] Forward (N.Y.) 30 Mar. n.p.: The word [...] has even merited a definition by the eminent sociologist Daniel Bell that distinguishes it from ‘shlemiel,’ viz.: ’The shlemiel is the pants presser who always drops the hot iron off the ironing board. The shlimazl is the shmo on whose foot the iron always falls. And the doppess is the one who says, “Tsk! Tsk!”’.
at doppess, n.
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