1893 M. Philips Newspaper 54: Some managing editors are born with a ‘nose for news’; others achieve ‘beats’.at beat, n.2
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 62: Lawyer Muggins has filed papers in divorce on behalf of Grocer Buggins against Mrs. Buggins.at buggins, n.
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 76: I am working the gold-brick game [...] I can tell you at least how we did up an old cockatoo here to-day for seventeen thousand dollars.at do up, v.1
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 76: I am working the gold-brick game [...] I can tell you at least how we did up an old cockatoo here to-day for seventeen thousand dollars.at goldbrick, n.
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 219: The late James Parton said that Pittsburgh at night reminded him of ‘hell with the lid taken off’.at hell with the lid off (n.) under hell, n.
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 118: She drew her feet together and with outstretched mits exclaimed, — ‘I am Cora Muggins!’.at mitt, n.
1893 M. Philips Newspaper 212: A glance suffices to tell him if a horse has been ‘stiffened’ and clever indeed must that jockey be who can pull or misride a horse without his eager eye detecting it.at stiffen, v.2