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[US] Mansfield News (OH) 7 Dec. 10?/ 3: It was a 10 to 1 shot that it [i.e. slang] would put the little duffers’ morals on the blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] Mansfield News (OH) 7 Dec. 10?/ 3: A publicity gang which will have the job of throwing this line of bull into every state in the union.
at line of bull (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10?/ 3: The Clean Language League of America, which is plum nuts about being dead set against slang, cuss words, risque stories, [etc.].
at dead set against (adj.) under dead set, adj.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: They said that sister must not say ‘fudge’ -- not even when there was nobody but guineas around – because ‘fudge’ wasn’t a proper dido to find in the flossie’s vocabulary.
at dido, n.1
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: They said that sister must not say ‘fudge’ – not even when there was nobody but guineas around – because ‘fudge’ wasn’t a proper dido to find in the flossie’s vocabulary.
at flossie, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Brother Russell declared, bo, that his crowd had already framed it up with some of the big guys in the music world to put the kibosh on this line of junk.
at frame, v.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10/3: The Clean Language League of America [...] cooked up plans for a grand hallelujah campaign to induce everybody to climb into the pure-words wagon.
at hallelujah, adj.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10/3: The Clean Language League of America, which is plum nuts about being dead set against slang, [...] -- not because it cares a whoop, but because such things always sound like heck to strangers.
at heck, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10/3: Another idea of the league is to put a straw boss in every other state for the purpose of hitching up with mutts as dippy as himself.
at hitch (up), v.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: The side show of the movement will be to go after the kind of music that you hear in the all-night dumps and the public hog-rassles.
at hog-wrestle (n.) under hog, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Brother Russell declared, bo, that his crowd had already framed it up with some of the big guys in the music world to put the kibosh on this line of junk.
at junk, n.1
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: The Clean Language League of America, which is plum nuts about being dead set against slang [etc.].
at nuts about (adj.) under nuts, adj.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Brother Russell declared, bo, that his crowd had already framed it up [...] to put the kibosh on this line of junk, and that it was only a question of time before they would have such pieces as ‘When I Get You Alone Tonight’ completely on the pizzazz.
at on the pizzazz (adj.) under pizzazz, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Only pie-trimmers and hash-slingers would ever condescend to come across with such rough stuff as ‘Aw, nix on that,’ ‘Cheese it’ and ‘Shut your trap.’.
at rough stuff, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10?/3: Quite a considerable bunch of language bugs took the splurge and the enthusiasm was all to the velvet.
at splurge, n.
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Only pie-trimmers and hash-slingers would ever condescend to come across with such rough stuff as ‘Aw, nix on that,’ ‘Cheese it,’ and ‘Shut your trap.’.
at shut one’s trap (v.) under trap, n.1
[US] Mansfield (OH) News 7 Dec. 10(?)/3: Quite a considerable bunch of language bugs took the splurge and the enthusiasm was all to the velvet.
at to the velvet under velvet, n.
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