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[US] Alliance Herald (Box Butte Co., NE) 7 Nov. 5/3: Every drink ‘nigger gin’? It’s made of turpentine, rainwater and Orlerans sugar.
at nigger gin (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Alliance Herald (NE) 17 Sept. 4/3: The hot liner from Mr Bryan’s bat in the direction of Joseph G. Cannon has already been scored ar republican head-quarters.
at hot, adj.
[US] Alliance Herald (NE) 14 Dec. 22/2: Anyone who can and won’t pay an honest debt is a far worse person than a horse thief or a dough-bellied or gander-legged, pin-head gambler.
at doughbelly (n.) under dough, n.
[US] Alliance Herald (Box butte Co., Neb) 5 Apr. 7/2: Silas Hyndshaw [...] an expert driver of the ‘hoodlum wagon’.
at hoodlum wagon, n.
[US] Alliance Herald (Box Butte Co., NE) 14 Dec. 8/3: The deadbeat in general considers himself [...] a gentleman rather wrong by society rather than wronging it.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] Alliance Herald (Box Butte Cty, NE) 13 Feb. n.p.: The fateful first of July when joy juice ceased to be an article of merchandise.
at joy juice (n.) under joy, n.
[US] Alliance Herald (Box Butte Co., NE) 17 Feb. 2/1: It isn’t the mullet-headed girl who brings the dance into disrepute.
at mulletheaded, adj.
[US] Alliance Herald (NE) 2 Jan. 1/1: William Reisenweaver, the seventeen-year-old muderer, has given out an interview [...] The Omaha Daily News carries [it] as a feature story [...] written in the most approved sob-sister style.
at sob sister (n.) under sob, n.1
[US] Alliance Herald (NE) 19 Aug. 4/3: [They] carted the body off to the local boot hill and dumped it in a shallow grave.
at boot hill, n.
[US] Alliance Herald (NE) 19 Aug. 4/3: The first gold brick ever sold was by a gang of Sidney pirates, who worked it off on a Hastings, Neb. banker.
at work off (v.) under work, v.
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