1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Here’s your chance to get hunk with that beezark!at bezark, n.
1938 R.L Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June n.p.: I’ll blast hell out of you. Not only for graft—but for murder.at blast, v.1
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 You get slammed for a touchdown [...] And blooie goes our hard-earned rep!at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly [...] smites him an elbow-smash upon the cafeteria.at cafeteria, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly [...] smites him an elbow-smash upon the cafeteria, thereby dislodging several sections of Dode’s chinaware.at china, n.1
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly flips him end over appetite.at end over appetite (adj.) under end, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 You have got to take this tramp [...] Remember, this is our last chance here at the Garden.at Garden, the, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 ‘Svengali is the central character in the play “Trilby”,’ the tall gazooka elucidates.at gazook, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 ‘Who’s wrestling us?’ I ask. ‘Oh, some New York loogan. He’s not too good.’.at loogan, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 We collect our forty marbles.at marbles, n.4
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 He wears a stovepipe hat which has seen better days.at stove-pipe, n.
1938 R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 So I’m to stiffen your tramp again, am I?at stiffen, v.1
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 We got the big end of the purse.at big end (of) (n.) under big, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 ‘Thanks, kid,’ I said, somewhat choked.at choked, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 The bartender gave him gin via mistake. That made Sooper a wee bit dizzy.at dizzy, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I never seen him in a barroom or even chasing the femmes.at femme, n.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 He was known as a club fighter, i.e., a sucker sappo—crowd-pleaser.at -o, sfx
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Then we got a shot at Roscoe Druke.at shot, n.1
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I want to thank you, Mr. Delaney, for your squareness [...] you have been darn white to me.at squareness (n.) under square, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Instead of grabbing my usual seventy-five per cent, plus all expenses, which are always tasty, I merely took fifty per cent.at tasty, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I want to thank you, Mr. Delaney, for your squareness [...] you have been darn white to me.at white, adj.
1944 T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Me, I was rooting for him, but the way he did it — woof!at woof!, excl.
1945 T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 On the morrow he would go to Hialeah, win some dough on the bangtails, and have one ritzy time.at bangtail, n.2
1945 T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 A guy gets in a tight spot, blows his top, and shoots. Next stop, the hot settee.at hot seat, n.
1945 T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ Popular Sports Jan. n.p.: ‘Okay, okay!’ snapped Gypsy. ‘What’s the lay?’.at lay, n.3
1945 T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 The clerk examines the tenner and finds it is a counterfeit. As you know, we’ve had quite a bit of queer shoving in town lately.at shove the queer (v.) under queer, n.
1945 T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 The Nitro Kid had warned him against shacking up in cheap flop houses.at shack up (with), v.