1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Fire—hell! It was just another false alarm—like Blood Thirsty McGaff.at false alarm, n.1
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Next, the uppercut, [...] a counterpunch, and the one most used to score a finisher with.at finisher, n.
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 He is canvassing the town’s best grease-garage — Oxford for beanery — in search of some steaming coffee and perhaps a snack.at grease joint (n.) under grease, n.1
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 The left hook [...] the boy who knows his hanswurst can even lay his playmate on the floor with it.at Hans wurst, n.
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 He has hooked the natives for all the dough that he will need for some time.at hook, v.1
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 I got in a jam back East with the burglar what managed me and I had to lam out.at jam, n.1
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 I got in a jam back East with the burglar what managed me and I had to lam out.at lam, v.2
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Funny Puss replies that he is very delighted, indeed, to hear from an old palsy-walsy.at palsy-walsy, n.
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 It is a crime the way a nice little boy [...] is going to get his face pasted proper by a real boxer.at proper, adv.
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 It was a typical rube audience, with farmers to the right of you, farmers to the left.at rube, adj.
1940 T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ All Sports Feb. 🌐 I get a very welcome letter from my Uncle Ebenezer Merrifellow, up in a slab named Yipp Center, N.Y.at slab, n.
1950 T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 I am a sappo for not risking a bob or two, as I can use some extra spinach.at bob, n.3
1950 T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 Well, leave us not be too hoggish, I always say.at hoggish, adj.
1950 T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. An old palsy-walsy from Perth Amboy, New Joisey.at palsy-walsy, n.
1950 T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. n.p.: You will make the boys think that you have no respect for the institution and they may get sored up.at sored up (adj.) under sore up, v.
1950 T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 I am a sappo for not risking a bob or two, as I can use some extra spinach.at spinach, n.2