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Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 5 Feb. 4/5: A telegram written in Russian or hen track Turkish paralyzes the Morse alphabet until it is translated.at hen tracks, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 5 Feb. 4/5: A telegram written in Russian or hen track Turkish paralyzes the Morse alphabet until it is translated. Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 9 Dec. 2/3: A number of sailors of the transport got liquored up and made life on the ship hideous.at liquored (up), adj.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 19 Oct. 5/3: The most work that is done by the prison laborers is in the rockcrusher ‘sweat-box‘ [...] The Porto Rican vagrants in the sweat-box have the job of handling the rock as it comes out crushed. It is a hot place.at sweat-box, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 2 Apr. 4/1: Members neither come here to laugh, nor to make jack-puddings of themselves.at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 30 May 4/1: Old hounds know the scent of reynard, and are not to be deceived by the rank smell of the fishy substitute.at rank, adj.1
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 12 Mar. 12/3: [cartoon caption] Stove me, if every mother’s chick didn’t fly out.at every mother’s son, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 12 Mar. 12/3: [cartoon caption] Stove me, if every mother’s chick didn’t fly out.at stove me!, excl.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 28 Dec. 6/4: The ‘hot dog’ man is busy.at hot dog, n.1
Hawaiian Star 23 Feb. 3/4: After Old Probabilities. [...] ‘I see the attorney general is going to stop all this guessing business in the newspapers.’ [...] ‘Whom do you suppose that’s aimed at?’ ‘The weather bureau?’.at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
Hawaiian Star 25 Sept. 6/3: The mitt Game. Boxing is tabu.at mitt game (n.) under mitt, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 8 Dec. 6/2: Neither man snowed a punch [...] Lahey never was a punisher and Reilly was little better.at punisher, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 14 Oct. 6/4: Nobody gives a tinker’s cuss whwether the pumpkin-headed Tankanmotu runs twenty miles.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Hawaiian Star 20 Apr. 8/4: There were tears, swelling eyedrops of bubbling laughter.at eye drops (n.) under eye, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 14 Oct. 6/4: Nobody gives a tinker’s cuss whether the pumpkin-headed Tankanmotu runs twenty miles.at pumpkin-headed, adj.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 28 May 7/3: Two New York Senators are bounced out for corruption, and they’ve got the deadwood on a dozen more.at bounce, v.1
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 28 May 7/3: Two New York Senators are bounced out for corruption, and they’ve got the deadwood on a dozen more.at have the deadwood on (v.) under deadwood, n.
Hawaiian Star 8 July 4/1: Such inane modes [...] will have more far-reaching results than those accruing to the pigeon-brained spendthrifts.at pigeon-brained (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/4: I said to a young man who wanted to go into the bunko business [...] ‘Young man, you’d better do anything else’.at bunco, adj.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/3: When bunko men ‘cut up’ with the detectives, detectives will pass a bunko man on the street without noticing him.at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/2: Higher class [...] confidence men such as gold brick or pay-off racetrack poolroom swindlers [...] are still at the old game of borrowing money on checks.at goldbrick, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/4: The money that comes easy though, goes easy. Did you ever see a gambler ‘win’ on Nob Hill?at Nob Hill, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/3: Over $200,000 was pulled off by two pay-off joints operated by [...] Kid Joe Sullivan.at pay-off joint (n.) under payoff, n.
Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 13 May 18/2: Them high-class thieves and scratchers — that’s a forger — why, they wouldn’t think of touchin’ nawthin’ small.at scratcher, n.
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