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Battle with the Slum 158: They did reach it [i.e. a problem], by a cut ’cross lots as it were, by putting the whole thing on a neighborly basis.at across lots, phr.
Battle with the Slum 158: They did reach it [i.e. a problem], by a cut ’cross lots as it were, by putting the whole thing on a neighborly basis. Battle with the Slum 251: The Kid’s been cussin’ awful.at awful, adv.
Battle with the Slum 332: She made herself a favorite with every one except the ‘beanery-man’ on the corner, who denounced her angrily.at beanery, n.
Battle with the Slum 110: Negro, Italian, and Jew, biting the dust with many a bruised head under the Hibernian’s stalwart fist, resistlessly drive him before them nevertheless.at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
Battle with the Slum 372: As a means of raising the needed funds, the club hit upon the plan of fining members ten cents when they ‘got funny’.at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
Battle with the Slum 314: Complaint had been made that there were too many ‘Ginnies’ in the Gio flat.at guinea, n.1
Battle with the Slum 319: Many is the time Mrs. Gehegan had a load on, an’ she went upstairs an’ slept it off.at load, n.
Battle with the Slum 51: The time [...] when a different kind of necktie was its pride; when the boy-murderer [...] who wore it on the gallows took leave of the captain of detectives with the cheerful invitation to ‘come over to the wake.’.at necktie, n.
Battle with the Slum 111: The local street nomenclature, in which the directory has no hand,—Nigger Row, Mixed Ale Flats, etc.,—indicates the hostile camps with unerring accuracy.at nigger row (n.) under nigger, n.1
Battle with the Slum 239: His job was to sit at the tail of the cart with a six-shooter and pop at any chance pursuer.at pop, v.1
Battle with the Slum 336: The Twenty-third Illinois Volunteers had battled with the Rebs weary nights and days.at Reb, n.
Battle with the Slum 314: Upon this were imposed layers of German, French, Jewish, and Italian, or, as the alley would have put it, Dutch, Sabé, Sheeny, and Dago.at Sabé, n.
Battle with the Slum 171: [caption] A ‘Scrub’ and her Bed—the Plank.at scrub, n.1
Battle with the Slum 98: A brazen-looking woman with a black eye, who answered the question of the officer, ‘Where did you get that shiner?’ with a laugh.at shiner, n.1
Battle with the Slum 243: Not every gang has a police record of theft and ‘slugging’ beyond the early encounters of the street.at slugging, n.
Battle with the Slum 395: Two girls ‘spieled’ in the corner, a kind of dancing that is not favored in the playground.at spiel, v.1
Battle with the Slum 257: Mrs. Kelly managed to keep a bit of a roof over her boy and herself, down in the ‘village’ on the river front.at Village, the, n.
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