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[UK] News of the World 18 Nov. in R.T. Hopkins Life and Death at the Old Bailey (1935) 216: A full report on the inquest appears in the News of the World [...] Here we learn that Jane Kelly lived for some time at a ‘gay house’ in the West End of London.
at gay house (n.) under gay, adj.
[UK] News of the World 7 Jan. 4/4: Mr. Williams told his wife to stop and she told him to ‘hold his noise or she would serve him the same’.
at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
[UK] News of the World 7 Jan. 3/3: Dawson said he would have quieted the superintendent if he hadn’t dropped his jemmy as it didn’t matter to him much what happened so long as he got away with the stuff.
at stuff, n.
[UK] News of the World 26 May 2/4: I am from the Yard, and know your house well.
at Yard, the, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 3: ‘Where are we, chum?’ demanded one marine in the broadest of Lancashire accents.
at chum, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 7: An expert ‘con’ man, with a criminal career, under seven aliases, dating back to 1905, has returned to penal servitude.
at con-man, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 8: Danny’s taking damned good care that nobody beats him for the outside.
at damned, adv.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: Women will go for it one hundred per cent.
at go for it, v.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 5: We beat the hell out of the best German troops they could throw in to stop us.
at beat (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 1: There is one self-propelling American gun described by its crews as ‘a real honey’.
at honey, n.1
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: A down-town chorus hoofer.
at hoofer, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: Hardened soldiers fix bayonets and advance through a smoke screen to meet the Jerries face to face.
at Jerry, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: ‘Four Jills in a Jeep’ – One of those ‘Stage Door Canteen’ efforts.
at jill, n.1
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: Dick Powell, and lush Lucille Ball.
at lush, adj.2
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: If you’re feeling musicomedy-conscious ‘Meet the People’ is just your meat (Ugh!).
at meat, n.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 6: He cannot prove that on the night of the crime he was away from home spending the evening with a girl he picked up in a bar but whose name he did not learn.
at pick up, v.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 7: He just pooh-poohed the idea that there was anything wrong.
at pooh-pooh, v.
[UK] News of the World 11 June 7: Mrs. Croft also declared that Wilmott had been very good to her, that she still loved him, and meant to stick to him.
at stick to, v.
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