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Chicago Defender 17 June 1: [He will] go back to London and join the forty eleven colored actors who are now located and settled down in amalgamation row never to return to America.at forty-eleven (adj.) under forty, adj.1
Chicago Defender 17 June 1: [He will] go back to London and join the forty eleven colored actors who are now located and settled down in amalgamation row never to return to America. Chicago Defender 5 Apr. 3/4: She likes her browns, but O you pinks! at pink, n.
Chicago Defender 30 Sept. 4: They sure are a bunch of hammerheads [HDAS].at hammerhead, n.1
Chicago Defender 4 June 7: He has a smile that’s worth a ‘zillion dollars’ and a ‘bay window’ as large as Old Roll Top’s and Whit Viney’s put together.at zillion, n.
Chicago Defender 22 Sept. 5: All the Chicago musicians, music lovers and friends are anxiously awaiting the great musicale [...] Dr. Wm. D. Cook will welcome the monster crowd.at monster, adj.
Chicago Defender 1 Dec. in Harrison Black Pearls (1988) 32: I am a poor girl and would like for some respectable man, who is interested in theatre work to help give me a start. [...] I don’t want anything trashy.at trashy, adj.
Chicago Defender 19 Oct. 14/3: Psychic aspects of rugcutting: – Herein we have no intention of presenting the sociological side of the engrossing art of ‘cutting rugs,’(i.e. any type of dancing in which much sweat exudes and little is added to the purse.) ... Evidently devotees of rugcutting let their minds go blank once they hit the hardwoods of the dance floor.at rug cutter, n.
Chicago Defender 12 Oct. 9/5: If ‘Dig that high-jivin’ chick layin’ her racket over at my crib, with those conked rug-cutters’ isn’t Harlemese for ‘Look at that ritzy miss trying to make an impression in my home with those slick-haired ballroom dancers’ then sue the fellow who told me it was.at high-jive (v.) under jive, v.1
Chicago Defender 12 Oct. 9/5: If ‘Dig that high-jivin’ chick layin’ her racket over at my crib, with those conked rug-cutters’ isn’t Harlemese for ‘Look at that ritzy miss trying to make an impression in my home with those slick-haired ballroom dancers’ then sue the fellow who told me it was.at lay one’s racket (v.) under racket, n.1
Chicago Defender 5 Jan. 8/8: Righteous opening, it was, at Dickie’s new swank spot (formerly the Nest Club) on Thursday nite last . . . Packed and jammed as openings usually are, the crowd rocked, swayed, and razz-a-ma-tazzed till the wee, wee hours of the mawning.at righteous, adj.
Chicago Defender 28 Dec. 4/3: Kids ditching grade school to ‘skiffle’ at ‘Doggie’ and Thelma Hunter’s house at 37th and Vernon Avenue.at skiffle, v.
in Chicago Defender 4 Oct. 20: And these cold mornings are on us – in other words ‘Hawkins’ has got us. Many of us didn’t have time to think about our ‘kivvers,’ for ‘Hawkins’ sneaked up on us overnight. Some smarty has launched a smart number titled, ‘When Winter Comes, Will You Be Ready?’.at Hawkins, n.3
Chicago Defender 3 Apr. 21/6: Milton Fletcher trumpet is gigging around Chicago.at gig, v.5
Chicago Defender 21 Oct. 12/7: Others conk their hair down and it gleams as brilliantly as if they were born in India and it looks fine.at conk, v.3
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