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Chicago Daily Trib. 7 Apr. n.p.: (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) An hundred militia officers, from corporal to commander, condemned to air their vanity and feathers only for the delectation of the boys and servant girls in this windy city [i.e. Chicago]. Chicago Daily Trib. 18 July 2: Their votes, unfortunately, make a Republican ward, and the white bulldozing, shot-gun riders from afar are ordered there to disturb, to kill, to make hell of a peaceful neighborhood, and the citizens are powerless to protect their colored neighbors, being themselves intimidated to such an extent that they dare not give the names of the Democratic Committee having charge of the killing. Chicago Daily Trib. 10: Brady [...] said: ‘It has now come to an issue where every man must show his colors. I am out of the business and so this fight is duck soup for me.’. Chicago Daily Trib. 14 May 1: Hun, Pole, Austrian, Bulgarian, Bohemian – the ‘Hunkies’ of Illinois Steel colloquialism – indifferent to pain of shattered, burned, mangled body grow frantic as the stretcher bearers near this fortress hospital. Chicago Daily Trib. 6 May 6/1: Overall was good, so was the descendant of kings, and the fielding was bodacious if anybody knows what that means. Chicago Daily Trib. 20 Aug. 7/2: No wonder the heavens cracked open and the rain descended in bodacious torrents. Chicago Daily Trib. 12 Sept. E3: Don’t it make you think of the paddy wagon going down the street to pinch a gambling joint? Chicago Daily Trib. 12 Mar. 11: How many years in the state stoneyard, making little ’uns out of big ’uns, should be imposed on any goog of the shaving lather legion who strides through a hotel corridor with a corsage bouquet on his waistcoat lapel? Chicago Daily Trib. 8 Nov. 6: Holy Cow! WHY can’t they print ’em right? Chicago Daily Trib. 29 Dec. II 1/1: Teen talk: Add these yap-happy expressions to your slang vocabulary, both for laughs and color. Around the country, high schoolers are greeting each other with ‘Hi, peeps’ (short for ‘hello, people,’ of course). Chicago Daily Trib. 5 May 1: They are what sociologists call a ‘wasp’ group--a group bearing all the earmarks of a majority, i. e. white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, but generally treated as a minority group because of their background and culture patterns. Chicago Daily Trib. 24 Oct. 4: While many honest men climbed, dozens of unscrupulous street wise and alley sharp men scrambled up the ladder.