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Time 29 June n.p.: The gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days.at pinko, adj.2
Time 29 June n.p.: The gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in those days. Time 17 Sept. 30/2: ‘Cheesecake’—leg-pictures of sporty females.at cheesecake, n.
Time 26 Aug. 27/1: Comedian Joe Brown [...] is locked out of his dressing room by mistake on his opening night and is compelled to pay $20 to a ticket scalper to get into the theatre in time for his entrance cue.at ticket-scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
Time 24 June 28/1: Wipe dat smile offen his face!at wipe the smile off someone’s face (v.) under wipe, v.
Time 10 May 45/1: [heading] Pep-pill poisoning. [...] Students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, [...] are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it ‘pepper-up’, ‘pep pills’.at pep pill, n.
Time 10 May 45/1: They call it ‘pepper-up’, ‘pep pills’.at pepper-upper, n.
Time 11 Nov. 22: To mold ‘boots’ (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work.at boot, n.2
Time 13 Oct. 36: Two bitchy strip queens are murdered.at bitchy, adj.
Time 37 14: Don’t let any bunk artist come along and tell you Wendell Willkie or Wendell Willkie’s views are any different.at bunk artist (n.) under bunk, n.2
in Time 5 Jan. 1942 50: Current favorite among her recordings: Doin’ a War Dance Down at the Cuckoo House [HDAS].at cuckoo house (n.) under cuckoo, n.1
Time 7 Apr. 22/3: Some 20 Manhattan reporters gave the Ambassador a going-over for 50 minutes [...] He did not let it appear that he knew he was being needled.at going-over, n.
Time 9 June 24/3: A Manhattan audience, looking unseasonably plushy, last week cooed and clapped its way through the revival of a cockeyed opera.at plush, adj.
Time 14 July 32: A great joke to cadets a few weeks ago was the scuttlebutt (rumour) that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts [...] had stocked the station with a large supply of caskets.at scuttlebutt, n.
Time 24 Aug. 14: The Supreme Empress of Cheesecake, the very Marlene Dietrich herself.at cheesecake, n.
Time Mag. 39 80: A complete job on U.S. slang is beyond human compass. ‘God-box’ is given for Church but not for organ.at God-box (n.) under God, n.1
Time 9 Feb. 24: The Jap, who is variously ‘Mr. Moto,’ ‘Tojo,’ ‘Charlie,’ or ‘the Japanzy’ to U.S. troops, was beginning to show a heavy preference for night movement [HDAS].at Mr Moto (n.) under Mr, n.
Time 9 Feb. 23/3: I visited a command post in one sector where they had just rounded up a bunch of Nips.at Nip, n.
Time 23 Feb. 52: Many is the chaplain, dodging dive-bombers, who has gotten up waving his fist at the unopposed Nip flyers [DA].at Nip, adj.
Time 12 Jan. 57/1: The medical profession...[is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket...than any other occupation, trade or profession .at scrape the barrel (v.) under scrape, v.
Time 9 Nov. 77/2: The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome sockeroo.at sockeroo, n.
Time 26 July 56: You may as well stop bumping your gums [W&F].at bump one’s gums (v.) under bump, v.1
Time 19 July 54: Marijuana may be called [...] Mary Jane.at mary jane, n.2
Time 19 July 54: Cigarets made from [marijuana] are killers.at killer, n.
Time 10 May 98: Twice it screens exciting action: once when the sub slugs it out with a disguised German raider.at slug, v.2
Time 12 June 11: The President then quietly dropped his blockbuster.at blockbuster, n.1
Time 23 Oct. 20: Exuberant hatchet jobs were [...] done on Foster Dulles because of his Wall Street connections.at hatchet job (n.) under hatchet, n.
Time 3 Jan. 🌐 The U.S. seemed rife with delinquent juveniles, the khaki-wacky V-girls.at khaki-wacky (n.) under khaki, n.
Time XLV 16/3: They not only took it on the Arthur Duffy from the Council Bluffs, Iowa, ‘escape-proof’ jail, but they called the play first, like Babe Ruth.at take it on the Arthur Duffy, v.
Time 11 June 22: The other fellow is, in most instances, a bunko artist who is looking for a chance to prove how good he is [W&F].at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
Time 29 Oct. 11/1: The design of the present discharge button is not popular (G.I.s know it as the ‘ruptured duck’).at ruptured duck, n.
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