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Chicago Daily News 1 May 7/1: The ball [...] laid him out cold for a minute [DA].at cold, adj.
Chicago Daily News 1 May 7/1: The ball [...] laid him out cold for a minute [DA]. Chicago Daily News 16 Sept. 18/2: They are at any rate no worse than the similar inventions regarding ‘deals,’ and ‘melons’ and ‘extra dividends’ and ‘inside buying’ which were distributed through Wall Street in 1906 and 1909 [DA].at melon, n.
Chicago Daily News 30 Apr. in Alcoholics Anonymous 1939–1942 n.p.: ‘Alkies,’ they called themselves, or ‘rummies.’.at alky, n.
Chicago Daily News 13 Nov. 1/2: The broadcast [...] was officially described in London as ‘obviously an enemy propaganda story’ and ‘a complete bogus.’ .at bogus, n.
Chicago Daily News 10 Feb. 10/3: After waiting two hours in the ‘bull pen’ outside the employment office, I was finally escorted into the inner sanctum [DA].at bullpen, n.
Chicago Daily News 4 May 21: Burgoo Stew [...] is such an old and ancient dish in Kentucky that no two people tell the same story of its origin [DA].at burgoo, n.
Chicago Daily News 21 Oct. 4/1: You don’t exactly figure that a display of gold sequins and flesh-colored foundations at a Hollywood bust is exactly a contribution toward winning the war [DA].at bust, n.
Chicago Daily News 8 May 10/1: So we have a faint revival of ‘trust busting’ to give color to the stuff [DA].at trust-buster, n.
Chicago Daily News 4 Nov. 1/4: Eatin’ Tobacco Up 20 Per Cent on Nov. 8 [DA].at eating tobacco, n.
Chicago Daily News 29 Nov. 3/1: Dr. Snyder followed her dutifully, after donning the frosh cap she had brought for him [DA].at frosh, n.
Chicago Daily News 2 Feb. 8/1: In former times justices of the peace throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and the ‘border’ generally, had a habit of closing certain dockets with the initials ‘G.T.T.,’ an abbreviation for ‘Gone To Texas’ [DA].at g.t.t., phr.
Chicago Daily News 4 Nov. 6/1: Central characters of both plays are engaging highbinders and sharpies who are not exactly thieves, but more than slightly overoptimistic in their use of the mails and other people’s money [DA].at highbinder, n.
Chicago Daily News 14 Feb. 8/3: We [in Kansas] have Jayhawk theaters, Jayhawk restaurants, Jayhawk lumber yards; the fabulous Jayhawk is the insignia not only of our state university, but of scores of other concerns [DA].at jayhawk, n.
Chicago Daily News 15 Jan. 3/3: President Roosevelt’s Democrats, whether New Deal, win-the-war or Johnny Reb in category, are having unity troubles [DA].at Johnny Reb (n.) under johnny-, pfx
Chicago Daily News 4 Aug. 24/1: The Homewood rail birds, captivated by her unusually lengthy strides, decided to measure her prints [DA].at railbird, n.
Chicago Daily News 31 Mar. 4/2: Did it ever enter your noggin that you must [...] stop kicking about taxes, because you cannot deadhead in a democracy? [DA].at deadhead, v.
Chicago Daily News 4 Oct. 12/1: They started in and accumulated enough runs in the first inning to put the game on ice [DA].at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
Chicago Daily News 16 Aug. 10/7: While we are laying down surrender terms for the Japanese, how about a Declaration on Senator ‘Dear Dago’ Bilbo, the Mississippi mudcat? [DA].at mudcat (n.) under mud, n.
Chicago Daily News 8 Oct. 3/1: Those fined [...] denied scalping [DA].at scalping (n.) under scalp, v.1
Chicago Daily News 23 Nov. 1/2: Dad blame it, I’ve taken all I can from you [DA].at dad-burn, v.
Chicago Daily News 24 May 1/2: The ‘L’ jam was further complicated as riders found earlier tickets voided by the increase in fares [DA].at el, n.1
Chicago Daily News 26 June 14/2: The mob was [...] operating handbooks with full knowledge of your police department [DA].at hand book (n.) under hand, n.1
Chicago Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3: I done it. Send me up the river. Give me the hot seat [DA].at send up the river (v.) under send, v.
Chicago Daily News 23 Nov. 21/2: Just let Quagmire try to sneak a quick smoke—wow! he’s a regular blood-hound [DA].at smoke, n.
Chicago Daily News 25 May 21: [comics] ‘Thank yo’, stranger.’ [...] ‘Stop calling me ‘stranger.’ My name is Walter!’ [DA].at stranger, n.
Chicago Daily News 14 May 18/4: No, I’m no old bach but a middle-aged father of two kids [DA].at bach, n.
Chicago Daily News 23 Jan. 14/1: Volstead, then a congressional lame duck, did take a lawyer job in the legal end of prohibition enforcement [DA].at lame duck, n.1
Chicago Daily News 4 Feb. 8/3: I get awfully tired of people who keep saying that we have to like the Negroes or the Jews or the Mongolians or the Holy Rollers [DA].at Holy Roller, n.
Chicago Daily News 22 Oct. 10/6: The moonshine works was found in dense woods on the reservation near Thurmont [DA].at moonshine, adj.
Chicago Daily News 14 June 6/3: The Kansas City vote frauds [...] have Attorney General Tom Clark spitting cotton, they believe [DA].at spit cotton (v.) under spit, v.
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