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[US] Jet 27 Nov. 62: ‘Oriental’ Shake Dancer Is New Night Club Rage A brand new twist has been introduced into the calculated art of shake dancing by small, compactly built, 25-year-old Rosa-lee Takella.
at shake dancer (n.) under shake, v.
[US] Jet 28 July 27: A Georgia bottle-blonde, who spent her peachy years as a cash-and-tarry doxy.
at bottle blond(e) (n.) under bottle, n.1
[US] Jet 12 May 41: Classmates of Faith Berry, daughter of Cincinnati Councilman Ted Berry, call her handsome father a ‘Dap Daddy’.
at dap daddy (n.) under dap, adj.
[US] Jet 3 Feb. 18: Donning a gas jockey’s uniform to aid the 1955 March of Dimes drive, Congressman Charles C. Diggs of Detroit fills up the tank.
at gas jockey (n.) under gas, n.1
[US] Jet 26 Dec. 47: Harlem plainsclothes men detailed to patrol a 125th St. bar and grill, which is city-wide headquarters for the limp wrist set. When propositioned by swishers [...] cops haul them off to the nearest station house.
at limp wrist, n.
[US] Jet 26 Dec. 47: Harlem plainsclothes men detailed to patrol a 125th St. bar and grill, which is city-wide headquarters for the limp wrist set. When propositioned by swishers [...] cops haul them off to the nearest station house.
at swish, n.
[US] Jet 31 July 30: We must rid ourselves not only of Uncle Tom, but Uncle Thomas and Aunt Thomasina.
at Aunt Thomasina, n.
[US] Jet 24 Dec. 22: Taking care of the children now is the problem and should not be influenced by Monday morning quarterbackin.
at Monday morning quarterback, v.
[US] Jet 12 Jan. 43: The bad mouth being put on those Negro teachers in New Orleans who declare they prefer ‘cultural’ things to integration.
at put the bad mouth on (v.) under badmouth, n.
[US] Jet 9 Nov. 44: They had put the pinch on taxicab owner Horace Wilson as a lottery suspect.
at put the pinch on (v.) under pinch, n.
[US] Jet 25 Nov. 60: The tall, self-acknowledged, blue-eyed ‘soul brother’ opened up his ‘brand new bag’ and rocked a [...] highly enthusiastic first-night audience.
at blue-eyed soul brother (n.) under blue-eyed, adj.3
[US] Jet 3 Nov. 29: [of a human hit by a vehicle] I wasn’t confronted — I was rear-ended,’ the plaintiff quickly replied.
at rear end, v.
[US] Jet 12 June 61: 21-year-old Al/C Edward Williams, who describes himself as ‘blue-eyed soul brother,’ writes [...] ‘It keeps me current in what’s the “haps” back in the world.
at hap, n.1
[US] Jet 30 July 45: [headline] ‘Niggerology’ Course of Fare at Private Academy [...] [Gertrude Wilks] describes her curriculum focus as ‘niggerology’.
at niggerology (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Jet 2 Nov. 4: Whoever it is is getting over like a fat rat, while we are being found in basements OD-ing.
at over, adv.2
[US] Jet 29 Nov. 20: The sign is the fulfillment of a two-year dream of 60-year-old Herschel Matthews, who proudly tells his customers, ‘I’m the head nigger in charge here.’.
at head nigger in charge (n.) under head, n.
[US] Jet 12 Aug. 61: Behind him are the ‘party hearty’ days and nights when he first made the Hollywood scene.
at party hearty (v.) under party, v.
[US] Jet 25 Nov. 61/2: I just don't want to bash on about it constantly. I do, however, feel a responsibility to do wel.
at bash on (v.) under bash, v.
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