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Annals of S.F. 385: Most of their [Chinese] national customs and doings are as little agreeable to white people as those horrible sounds which make the ‘celestial’ harmony.at celestial, adj.2
Annals of S.F. 385: Most of their [Chinese] national customs and doings are as little agreeable to white people as those horrible sounds which make the ‘celestial’ harmony. Annals of S.F. 378: Those who have mingled familiarly with ‘celestials’ have commonly felt before long an uncontrollable sort of loathing against them.at celestial, n.
Annals of S.F. 380: He could not pretend to compete with the poverty-stricken, meek and cheap ‘coolie,’ as so John Chinaman was now called by many.at John Chinaman, n.
Annals of S.F. 640: There were American dining-rooms, [...] the Italian osterie, the Chinese chow-chows.at chow-chow, n.1
Annals of S.F. 381: He stigmatized the Chinese as ‘coolies,’ (an appellation which they professed to abhor).at coolie, n.1
Annals of S.F. 384: The gamblers, the frail nymphs, and the yellow loafer class are continually loitering about the streets.at frail, n.1
Annals of S.F. 506: [illus. caption] Colored population – Greaser, Chinaman, and Negro.at greaser, n.1
Annals of S.F. 170: The ball was kept hot and rolling incessantly, all that night.at hot, adj.
Annals of S.F. 226: These outrages, perpetuated usually at night [...] were so frequent that the ‘hounds’ became a terror to all well-disposed people of the town. They invaded the stores, taverns, and houses of the Americans themselves and demanded whatever they desired.at hound, n.
Annals of S.F. 379: ‘John’s’ person does not smell very sweetly.at John, n.
Annals of S.F. 266: Turn him [Sandwich Islander] out, he is a Kanaka!at Kanaka, n.
Annals of S.F. 405: Its own mines wanted every hand that could dig a hole or feed a long-tom.at long tom, n.
Annals of S.F. 415: The stone for this building was prepared in China and put up in San Francisco by Chinese workmen [...] The faithful ‘paddy’ or steam-excavator never tired.at Paddy, n.
Annals of S.F. 509: The rowdy and ‘shoulder-striker,’ the drunkard, the insolent.at shoulder-hitter (n.) under shoulder, n.
Annals of S.F. 634: A few ‘swells’ and sharpers of the ‘Sydney-cove’ school.at Sydney duck (n.) under Sydney, n.
Annals of S.F. 669: You might suppose yourself in a salon of upper tendom.at upper-tendom (n.) under upper ten, n.
Annals of S.F. 384: The truly industrious, well behaved, and worthy part of the people [Chinese] are scattered over the city [...] and are seldom seen, while the gamblers, the frail nymphs, and the yellow loafer class are continually loitering about the streets.at yellow, adj.
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