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[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 2 Feb. 1/5: Dancing On Air. A Quiet hanging Affair at St Louis [...] A.T. Lawrence [...] was hung in the jail-yard.
at dance on/in (the) air (v.) under dance, v.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 10 Mar. 2/3: ‘I’ll bet you that man’s name is Sneider,’ said one Californian [...] ‘It’s a go,’ said his companion.
at go, n.1
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 7 July 4/4: Old Probs and his assistant settle on the weather and I write out the reports.
at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 10 Mar. 2/3: They are sure to exhibit their propensity for betting [...] and they will go their whole pile on anything.
at go the (whole) pile (v.) under pile, n.1
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 20 Oct. 2/2: A ‘sockdolager’ had been given Hughes [...] He sirvived it and was as strong in the fight.
at sockdolager, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 3 July 4/2: He made for Emmert’s brewery, where at nightfall he was well beered up.
at beered (up) (adj.) under beer, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 1 Apr. 6/1: Adams was once upon a time a biscuit shooter or hash handler, at the Sherman house.
at biscuit shooter (n.) under biscuit, n.1
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 29 Oct. 1/4: The countryman, who, so full of budge as to be almost oblivious to all else, dispalyed a tempting roll of bills.
at budge, n.2
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 31 July 4/2: There is nothing half so full of pure cussedness [...] as the business end of a wasp.
at business end, the (n.) under business, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 29 Oct. 1/4: Almost unconscious from the effects of his frequent libations he was steered by his companions to a ‘dead-fall’ gambling house.
at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 1 Apr. 6/1: Adams was once upon a time a biscuit shooter or hash handler, at the Sherman house.
at hash-slinger, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 29 Oct. 1/4: The first cocktail tasted well and he repeated it [...] he whooped it up.
at whoop it up, v.
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 18 Aug. 3/1: Clark was one of a gang of ‘snap’ gamblers [...] A small looking-glass attached to the piece of wire was hung inside Clark’s coat.
at snap gambler (n.) under snap, v.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 3 June 1/1: The evening had been given over to committees, caucusing and general blarnation.
at blarnation, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 7 Mar. 4/1: It cost the Browns, for getting drunk [...] just over twenty good bills [and] in court they had a poll-parrot and monkey time.
at parrot and monkey time, n.
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 20 Sept. 9/5: Inside a month there will be [...] 500 live men working for the regular candidate and against the Minneapolis ring [...] Bring on your bears.
at bring on your bears under bear, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 11 June 3/6: The chap who struck oil must have greased his ‘right duke’.
at grease someone’s duke (v.) under duke, n.3
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 7 Nov. 4/3: ‘Pale-face Charley’ and scoundrel Gordon had better tie down their hair to-day to save their scalps.
at paleface, n.
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 2 Dec. 4/2: Texas offered a sort of ‘city of reuge’ for defaulters, thieves, and criminals [...] Such fleeing rascals [...] were said to be ‘taking the Sabine slide!’.
at take the Sabine slide (v.) under slide, n.
[US] Dly Globe (St Paul, MN) 7 Oct. 9/7: I want you to understand I’m no country squash.
at country squash (n.) under country, adj.
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 10 Feb. 8/6: Deacon Podd was unkind enough to remark: That bean-bellied olf ape can’t skate.
at beanbelly, n.2
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 21 Nov. 1/6: A brass band formed [...] around a billiard table in a sawdust saloon at 1706 State Street.
at sawdust joint (n.) under sawdust, n.2
[US] St Paul Globe (MN) 28 Nov. 4/5: Glen will beyond all question ‘pull hemp’ either by course of law or mob violence.
at stretch (the) hemp (v.) under stretch, v.
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 3 Nov. 5/4: Speaking of Mr Schurmeier, he is almost a dead ringer for Elwyn Barron.
at dead ringer, n.
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 27 July 5/1: She started out again for her accustomed moonlight flitting.
at moonlight flitting, n.
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 24 May 1/4: He is inclined to bend his elbow too often.
at bend one’s elbow (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 28 Nov. 15/2: The young man went to the judge and asked him if he didn’t want some good blockade whiskey.
at blockade, n.
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 19 Oct. 4/6: He said when he landed in New York in 1862 the ‘bog-trotters’ were respected.
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[US] St Paul Daily Globe (MN) 16 Aug. 5/3: ‘Great Gabriel,’ he hollered [...] ‘yer dod-blasted b’ar’s fetched loose.’.
at dod-blasted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 16 Aug. 5/3: I sot thar [...] wonderin’ if the gol-darn thing wouldn’t bust.
at goldarn, adj.
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