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N.Y. World in Gangs of N.Y. 61: Kit said, ‘I’m damned if some of the people that come here oughtn’t to be clubbed [...] I must be damned good looking to have so many fine fellows looking at me.’.at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
N.Y. World in Gangs of N.Y. 61: Kit said, ‘I’m damned if some of the people that come here oughtn’t to be clubbed [...] I must be damned good looking to have so many fine fellows looking at me.’. World (N.Y.) V. No. 115. 4: The prince of plungers, with hat jauntily cocked over one eye .at plunger, n.
World (N.Y.) in (1909) 195/2: Some of Sir Watkin’s horses are of extraordinary build and value. Comet stands out foremost, and ‘is the pick of the basket’.at pick of the basket, n.
N.Y. World 22 Nov. 5/1: Mr. Skinner’s apparent flop on the railroad question is injuring his chances in the Speakership struggle.at flop, n.3
World (N.Y.) Jan. 10/2: The startling mixture of peerage and beerocracy [...] was absent this time [F&H].at beerocracy (n.) under beer, n.
World (N.Y.) 15 Sept. 5/1: I am going to put a marker in for this meal.at marker, n.2
World (N.Y.) 4 Jan. 19/7: THE POST-OFFICE FIEND. Every afternoon this crank can be seen busily engaged in writing letters (which are never mailed).at fiend, n.
World (N.Y.) 25 Apr. 11/1–2: ‘Are there any more schemes for plucking the jays?’ ‘Lots! There’s the jewelry case and envelope game. You know all about them.’.at envelope game, n.
World (N.Y.) 28 June 4/3: Judge Donohue very properly denounced as ‘simply disgraceful’ the facts disclosed on the argument of a writ returnable before him last Saturday in relation to the scandalous collusion existing between the shyster lawyers who hang around the Tombs and the keeps of the prison.at shyster, n.
World (N.Y.) 19 June 11/1: He has had a severe attack of the ‘charley horse’ and has been unable to do any base-running or really effective fielding.at charley horse, n.
World (N.Y.) 8 June 6/5: The Metropolitans’ work at the bat was decidedly clever, and they seemed to be able to hit Foutz’ delivery just at the time when a hit was required.at clever, adj.
World (N.Y.) 16 June 6/4: The work of the ex-Jerseyman was certainly remarkable [...] In the points he also proved a ‘clinker,’ not a hit being made of his delivery in the five innings he pitched.at clinker, n.2
World (N.Y.) 26 Aug. 6/4: In the language of that eminent authority Mr. De Wolf Hopper, ‘Mickey Welch is a dandy and the king-pin of them all’.at dandy, n.2
World (N.Y.) 9 Apr. 6/1: [...] to see the Giants roll up three runs, while Yale had to be contented with a goose egg.at goose egg, n.
World (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 6/5: That led Sam Derickson to get ‘hot under the collar,’ and he wagered a ‘fiver’ that Columbia would secure a run in the next Inning.at fiver, n.
World (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 3/6: It will make them hustle to keep near the Giants when they meet Saturday.at hustle, v.
World (N.Y.) 26 Aug. 6/4: In the language of that eminent authority Mr. De Wolf Hopper, ‘Mickey Welch is a dandy and the king-pin of them all’.at kingpin, n.
World (N.Y.) 26 July 3/1: On Daly’s muffing Ward’s fourth strike ‘Buck’ crossed the plate.at muff, v.1
World (N.Y.) 27 Aug. 6/1: A moment later Williamson hit to right field, and although it was the kind of a high fly that Mike usually ‘eats,’ he kept up the order of things by making a muff of it.at muff, n.2
World (N.Y.) 26 Aug. 6/4: The Louisville German thought he had jays to deal with. Nixey, Freddie; you were too rash.at nixey!, excl.
World (N.Y.) 14 Aug. 3/5: Hunting for ‘moss-agate’ pitchers is one of the ills that baseball managerial flesh is heir to [...] He had been Informed that a wonder in the twirling line resided in Harlem and early yesterday morning he was in town to sign ‘the wonder.’ But the ‘phenom’ did not materialize, and Denny was in despair.at phenom, n.
World (N.Y.) 2 Sept. 6/6: The muff and the subsequent ‘case of rattles’ which the young player had, caused the loss for New York.at rattle, n.
World (N.Y.) 16 June 6/4: After that the local Leaguers slaughtered the men from the City of Brotherly Love, and the latter several times seemed ‘rattled’.at rattled, adj.
World (N.Y.) 12 May 6/5: In the two games previously played with Washington he was, in the vernacular, ‘rotten.’.at rotten, adj.
World (N.Y.) 17 July 6/4: The Governor wore a suit of dark gray [...] His moustache and ‘side-boards’ were neatly trimmed.at sideboards (n.) under side, adj.
World (N.Y.) 2 June 3/4: What a slaughter It was! Seventeen men stepped to the plate, and one after another gave audible evidence of his ability to handle a wagon tongue. The sound of the sockdolager was heard with alarming frequency, followed by the shouts of the excited crowd on grand stand and bleacheries.at sockdolager, n.
World (N.Y.) 5 June 11/2: For him to let Hecker go would raise a howl all along the line. Louisville is ‘stuck’ on Hecker.at stuck on (adj.) under stuck, adj.
N.Y. World 13 May in Americanisms (1889) 290: He’ll beef an’ kick like a steer an’ let on he won’t never wear ’em.at beef, v.1
N.Y. World 13 May n.p.: Is it possible that the Chicagoans never heard of white shirts before this spring? May-be the street-railway presidents never saw a starched shirt (I must deplore the use of the word ‘biled’ as applied to shirts) until this year [F&H].at boiled shirt (n.) under boiled, adj.
World (N.Y.) 12 Mar. 10/4: Hearin’ ’em shoot off about cows and pigs all th’ time, I thought they were a lot o’ dummies, and that was how they got cases on me.at have cases on (v.) under case, n.1
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