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[US] (con. 1910s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 36: Playing can-house music wasn’t too healthy for a young man trying to fnd himself.
at can house (n.) under can, n.1
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 155: Put a cork in it, Hoagy.
at put a cork in it! (excl.) under cork, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 301: The poetry-and-jazz crumbuns around here, they’re from Weirdsville if you ask me.
at crumbum, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 161: The average undergraduate of the 1920’s [...] was a lot of other things; radio-bug, grind, drip, highbrow.
at drip, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 35: The sporting women were always giving him the goo-goo eyes — as the term was then.
at goo-goo eyes, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 203: Lil Hardin, the piano player, took the gate-mouthed Louis under care.
at gatemouth, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 301: All I’m interested in is the real gully low jazz. I mean the real thing, not just cool or progressive riffing.
at gully, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 157: It’s warm and swimmy here, crazy as a laughing farm.
at laughing academy (n.) under laughing, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 104: They like marshmallow music.
at marshmallow, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 154: It [home brew] seems to percolate your insides.
at percolate, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 162: I remember having Coke with a campus queen and getting on the subject of sex.
at queen, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) Carmichael & Longstreet Sometimes I Wonder 157: Night clubs are fouled full of wind-jammers.
at windjammer, n.1
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