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[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 2 Aug. 2/3: ‘Who openeth a jackpot may not always rake it down’.
at rake down, v.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 9 Aug. 14/1: Freddy Robsinson [...] Richett’s right bower, will see the ladies are properly entertained.
at right bower (n.) under right, adj.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 6 Dec. 10/2: The election of Allison as President of the Senate carries with it a rod in pickle for another [...] one Dr Condon.
at rod in piss (n.) under rod, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 1 Nov. 5/2: A member [...] took his little yen-hook, stretched himself out ona divan, rolled a litle pill, lit the pipe and smoked.
at yen hock (n.) under yen, n.1
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 12 Dec. 7/1: But now comes the afterclap. Bill is re-elected.
at after-clap, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 3 Oct. 8/3: William Faversham seems destined to become the popular ‘clotheshorse’ of the county. [He] gained some attention last year by appearing in adress suit of light gray.
at clotheshorse, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 31 Jan. 5/2: The sly city dads rubbed it into the poor telephone people by limiting the term to thirty years [...] Wasn’t that a corkerina.
at corker, n.2
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 3 Oct. 9/1: Was anyone ever cursed with such a bunch of frozen cornfeds?
at cornfed, n.2
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 3 Oct. 9/1: You wooden-shoed web-footer.
at web-foot, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 28 Mar. 8/1: The Rose Coghlan one-nighters did ‘Mrs Tanqueray the Second’ to a house that one-night stunts usually get.
at one-nighter, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 19 Sept. 5/1: We pencil-pushing league of rogues [...] engristed in the journalistic mill.
at pencil-pushing, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 19 Nov. 4/1: Even old mossy-backed Democrats said: ‘That reminds us of Andrew Jackson, and the reminder is a pleasant one’.
at moss-back, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 7 May 9/2: She has sold her automobile [...] She is one of the sort who can be popular without a gasoline buggy.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (UT) 22 Sept. 4/3: These political mendicants [...] insist that being always Jack-Mormons, they ought at least be permitted to gorge themselves at the church swill barrel.
at jack Mormon, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (UT) 16 Dec. 25/3: Fill, fill up the flagon. / don’t mind a good jag on.
at get a jag on (v.) under jag, n.1
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 24 Feb. 9/3: [ad for burlesque show] Rollicking Girls [...] Bathing Girls. Poppy Girls. Lulu Girls.
at lulu, adj.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 18 Aug. 7/2: I’ve got the folks up here thinking I’m all to the mustard.
at mustard, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City) 19 May 13/1: That a share [...] should drop from $70 to $28 [...] is one of the things that make Brokers’ Row look like Queer Street.
at Queer Street, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 15 Dec. 10/2: Oh my; that rubbering rubberneck with his bunch of dummy rubberers, in the Seeing New York car.
at rubberer, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 5 Dec. 7/2: Citizens of the peanut gallery [...] failed to note the ringing of the curfew.
at peanut gallery (n.) under peanut, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 5 June 9/2: Bant, bant, bant! Oh, Fashion, at thy decree [...] she bravely starves to get slim.
at bant, v.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Dec. 5/2: People put the hooks in the chorus girls because they chase around with marrried men.
at chase, v.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Dec. 5/2: Some of those jealous cats [...] used to sing to me, ‘Why Don’t You Get a Husband of Your Own?’ and I just thought I’d show them by copin’ off Jim. Aint I the cute kid?
at cop off, v.3
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Dec. 5/2: Some of those jealous cats [...] used to sing to me, ‘Why Don’t You Get a Husband of Your Own?’ and I just thought I’d show them by copin’ off Jim. Aint I the cute kid?
at cute, adj.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (UT) 14 Aug. 17/2: M. Anthony., the Eyetalian ambassador.
at Eyetie, adj.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Dec. 5/2: Some of those jealous cats [...] used to sing to me, ‘Why Don’t You Get a Husband of Your Own?’ and I just thought I’d show them by copin’ off Jim. Aint I the cute kid?
at kid, n.1
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Dec. 5/2: Jim got to handing out tiaras to every squab and broiler on Broadway.
at squab, n.2
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City, UT) 17 Dec. 90/2: Dey’d got him in a hot corner.
at hot corner (n.) under hot, adj.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (Salt Lake City) 2 Apr. 10/1: Mr and Mrs Hanford and their company [...] descended on the Theatre Monday evening at one dollar and a half per pasteboard.
at pasteboard, n.
[US] Goodwin’s Wkly (UT) 15 Apr. 10/3: I was out with the other young blades last night; and a hair of the dog that bit me — you know the rest.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
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