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Sheboygan (WI) Press 25 Sept. 1/2: Dressed in a close fitting grey suit, the dapper ‘beer baron’ related a story of the traffic in privileges inside [...] the old prison.at baron, n.
Sheboygan (WI) Press 25 Sept. 1/2: Dressed in a close fitting grey suit, the dapper ‘beer baron’ related a story of the traffic in privileges inside [...] the old prison. Sheboygan (WI) Press 25 Sept. 1/3: Government attorneys [...] declared [...] that Druggan and Lake have decided to ‘blow off the lid.’.at blow the lid off (v.) under lid, n.
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Sheboygan Press (WI) 15 Apr. 9/4: The stubble jumpers, or more often called Sod-Busters [...] are the ones with big families.at stubble-jumper, n.
Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Nov. 4/3: Are you one of those Saturday night and Sunday morning quarterbacks who knows what they ‘should have’ done to win the game?at Monday morning quarterback, n.
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: The social functions arranged for midshipmen in ‘Crabtown’ are ‘hops,’ and when a middy takes his ‘O-A-O’ – the one and only girl – to the ‘hop,’ he is ‘dragging a girl.’.at drag, v.1
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: Ketchup is ‘red eye,’ and meat or gravy sauces are ‘bug juice’.at red-eye, n.
Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: Like students the world over, the middies have developed among themselves a ‘patois’ of slang that, although highly descriptive when understood, forces an outsider to seek an interpreter.at middy, n.
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: The social functions arranged for midshipmen in ‘Crabtown’ are ‘hops,’ and when a middy takes his ‘O-A-O’—the one and only girl—to the ‘hop,’ he is ‘dragging a girl.’.at o.a.o., n.
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: A cigarette is a ‘skag.’.at scag, n.1
‘Patois of Annapolis’ Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: In the mess hall, spinach, when served, and it is served often, comes out as ‘seaweed’.at seaweed (n.) under sea, n.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 26 Sept. 18/3: ‘We are invited to a cocktail party which is being given for some sort of shirt-tail relation o’ hers’.at shirt-tail relation (n.) under shirt, n.
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: Water is ‘sky juice.’.at sky-juice (n.) under sky, n.1
‘Patois of Annapolis’ in Sheboygan (WI) Press 17 Sept. 8/3: If a middy shares his room with a comrade, the latter is known as the ‘wife,’ while if the room is shared with several all are known as ‘bigamists.’.at wife, n.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 16 Oct. n.p.: We have had but three days of rain in the nine weeks we have been here. Last Friday it turned a little cool so we were issued our winter clothes. We all hope we don’t get our ‘long Johns’ for a while because it is too warm yet.at long johns, n.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 28 May 2/5: This 20-year-old private shoots such a deadly gun that [...] he was ordered to [...] teach the others how to handle the lead spitters.at lead-pusher (n.) under lead, n.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 27 Jan. 11/2: Sylvester boasts he would love to meet a pirate and beat the stuffing out of him.at beat the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1
Sheboygan (WI) Press 28 Apr. 14/2: (‘STEVE ROPER’ comic, first panel): OKAY VANCE—SO YOU’VE FOUND SOME OLD EAR RINGS IN KIT’S DESK!...YOU CAN’T MAKE A FEDERAL CASE OUT OF THAT!at make a federal case out of (v.) under federal, adj.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 9 Feb. 16/4: Root’s Monday Morning Koffee Klatch [...] Doughtnuts [...] Snails.at snail, n.
Sheboygan Press (WI) 29 Oct. 12/1: Dumb as a box rocks, the cattle brains of the public [...] reacted exactly as the media expected.at dumb as a box of rocks (adj.) under dumb, adj.1
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