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Lit. Digest 23 719: Josh Green, a ‘bad nigger,’ who kills Captain McBane because the latter assisted in the lynching of the negro’s father when ]osh was a boy.at bad nigger (n.) under bad, adj.
Lit. Digest 23 719: Josh Green, a ‘bad nigger,’ who kills Captain McBane because the latter assisted in the lynching of the negro’s father when ]osh was a boy. Lit. Digest 33 738/2: Dan O'Leary said Izzy would go off his bean.at off one’s bean (adj.) under bean, n.1
Literary Digest 5 Oct. 548: National banks [were created] [...] after the era of wildcat and red-dog private-banknote currency [DA].at red dog, adj.
Literary Digest 30 Mar. 657/1: At last, after the long junket through the South, on which all managers are Simon Legrees, is ended, comes a welcome day when the new uniforms are donned [DA].at simon legree, n.
Literary Digest 6 July 62: I overheard two ‘blimeys’ [...] while they hunted a shell-hole.at blimey, n.
Literary Digest 25 May 48: To the Americans, the poilu has become a didonk, and the term is used quite affectionately.at dee-donk, n.
Lit. Digest 56 77: Student Whoozis is given command of the company. The enemy, either simulated or represented, has his outposts flung across the hills adjacent to and bordering upon the National Highway.at whoozis, n.
Literary Digest 18 Jan. 56: James P. McKinney [...] was wounded in the right arm by shrapnel in the ‘Big Stunt’ [HDAS].at big stunt (n.) under stunt, n.
Literary Digest 22 May 120: Time was when the unsuccessful man merely failed, but these days, in a world scurrying about in motor-cars and breathing gasoline, he is said to ‘skid’ .at skid, v.
Literary Digest 14 Mar. 65: College dances are often called ‘drags’ [HDAS].at drag, n.1
Lit. Digest CXX 38/1: But as an ‘aginner’ he is a very good ‘aginner.’ And the thing he would be ‘agin’ next year would be the New Deal. at aginner, n.
Literary Digest (US) 16 May 32: Since there is no national statute, the Federal men would have been powerless to prosecute the ‘ice-tong doctor’ who sold the boy his ‘reefers’.at ice-tong doctor, n.
Literary Digest (US) 16 May 32: The mad hunger of ten million ‘junkies,’ — ‘snowbirds,’ ‘hopheads,’ and ‘mugglers’ — seemed stronger than all the combined forces of men and women who wished — for the addicts sake — to break the vicious circle.at muggler, n.2
Literary Digest 10 Apr. 12: Clover kicker. Farmer, rube.at clover-kicker, n.
Literary Digest 10 Apr. 12: Sightseeing punks, mission stiffs, out-and-outs bums, curbstone canaries, psychopaths and heat artists [HDAS].at curbstone canary (n.) under curbstone, adj.
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