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Old-Time Saloon 111: [He] kept a Clark Street place that ran from street-front to alley and swarmed with the down-and-outers.at down-and-outer, n.
Old-Time Saloon 111: [He] kept a Clark Street place that ran from street-front to alley and swarmed with the down-and-outers. Old-Time Saloon 115: Anyone who drank eight mugs of Tom and Jerry could arise next morning and see his breath.at tom and jerry, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 105: He did the only thing he could do, and that was to encourage the spending proclivities of his own little group of bar-flies.at bar-fly, n.
Old-Time Saloon 144: A consistent policy was to ‘fix’ the ‘harness bull’ on the beat, the theory being that any policeman who was a square guy would not bite the hand that was feeding him.at on the beat under beat, n.3
Old-Time Saloon 20: The distillers, the brewers and the retail dealers in wine, liquors and cigars were a lot of overbearing and impudent dumb-bells.at dumb-bell, n.
Old-Time Saloon 105: [They] kept hanging around and waiting for some one to come in and order all present to ‘belly up to the bar,’ and the evening roysterers who were violently opposed to going home early.at belly up!, excl.
Old-Time Saloon 76: ‘Bit’ means twelve and one-half cents. ‘The long bit’ was fifteen cents and the ‘short bit’ was a dime.at bit, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 76: ‘Bit’ means twelve and one-half cents. ‘The long bit’ was fifteen cents and the ‘short bit’ was a dime.at short bit (n.) under bit, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 76: ‘Bit’ means twelve and one-half cents. ‘The long bit’ was fifteen cents and the ‘short bit’ was a dime.at long bit (n.) under bit, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 144: A consistent policy was to ‘fix’ the ‘harness bull’ on the beat, the theory being that any policeman who was a square guy would not bite the hand that was feeding him.at bite the hand that feeds one (v.) under bite, v.
Old-Time Saloon 60: ‘Velvet’. It consisted, half and half, of champagne and porter.at black velvet (n.) under black, adj.
Old-Time Saloon 108: It harbored a bleary crew.at bleary, adj.
Old-Time Saloon 48: Referring, of course, to your old playmate known as the Dried Herring, alias the Black-Eyed Susan, alias the Blind Robin.at blind robin (n.) under blind, adj.1
Old-Time Saloon 19: A large slice of the population, even during the high tide of the wet era, shunned the booze joints and rode on the wagon.at booze crib (n.) under booze, n.
Old-Time Saloon 27: For every one de luxe establishments there were a thousand boozing kens all of the same conventional pattern.at bousing-ken, n.
Old-Time Saloon 36: The stony-broke who had seen better days would have died rather than go to a back door and beg for a hand-out.at stone broke, adj.
Old-Time Saloon 6 7: The parade which trailed behind the Town Marshal and the combative drunk, up Main Street towards the ‘calaboose,’ was a frequent spectacle.at calaboose, n.
Old-Time Saloon 138: The syndicate [...] appeared to be making a safe bet, because [...] it seemed certain that the profits would continue and the dividends would be a cinch.at cinch, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 70: They were all pop-eyed and seemed to have St. Vitus’ dance.at St Vitus’s dance, n.
Old-Time Saloon 37: The bar-keep had to exercise a nice sense of discrimination in sorting out the willing spenders from the dead-beats.at deadbeat, n.
Old-Time Saloon 3: Nothing will be said or done with the intent of giving offense to the extreme Drys or the extreme Wets or that inbetween population which may be classed as Slightly Moist.at dry, n.1
Old-Time Saloon 31: He was supposed to have an array of grape beverages behind the bar to prove that he dealt in lady-like table wines as well as in forty-rod T.N.T. guaranteed to blow the hat off.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
Old-Time Saloon 145: No matter how much he wanted to mop up, that was his own affair and nobody ought to tell a good fellow where to get off.at tell someone where to get off (v.) under get off, v.3
Old-Time Saloon 77: Any one who owned up to paying five a bottle for ‘giggle soup’.at giggle soup (n.) under giggle, adj.
Old-Time Saloon 16: Why go to a lot of trouble in order to be gypped?at gyp, v.
Old-Time Saloon 162–3: The high school students and collegians have been shown up [...] as hoop-la night riders and hell-raisers in general.at hell-raiser (n.) under hell, n.
Old-Time Saloon 162–3: The high school students and collegians have been shown up [...] as hoop-la night riders and hell-raisers in general.at hoopla, adj.
Old-Time Saloon 13: Open gambling houses, open pool-rooms and convenient hop-joints are not tolerated.at hop joint (n.) under hop, n.2
Old-Time Saloon 27: [They] assembled to get themselves liquored ‘to the key-hole’ and then pull off rough-and-tumble fights.at liquored (up), adj.
Old-Time Saloon 114: If three sons of the sod got together, the business before the house was to recite ‘Shamus O’Brien’ and free Ireland.at Old Sod, n.
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