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[US] Broad Ax (Salt lake City, UT) 23 Oct. 3/2: This [...] was known as ‘pigeon dropping’.
at pigeon dropping (n.) under pigeon drop, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 18 May 3/4: Some people call it colic but most honest, plain-spoken people call it ‘belly-ache’.
at belly-ache, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 16 Aug. 1/3: Murrays and Carey’s dirty big toes.
at dirty, adv.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 14 Feb. 1/2: Diastrict Attorney Bethea informed [the] crowd of old time Bible-beaters that ‘he could do nothing for them’.
at bible-beater (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City) 23 Apr. 5/1: He became a shouting bible pounder.
at bible-pounder (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 23 July 12/5: A tattler is to be despised and dreaded by friend and foe [...] that old proverb is a true one. ‘A dog that will carry a bone will bring one’.
at carry a bone (v.) under carry, v.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 14 Apr. 1/5: Miss Smith works [...] in the ‘Red Light District’ [...] in the Evelyn Sisters house of prostitution.
at red light, n.1
[US] Broad Ax (Salt lake City, UT) 23 Feb. 3/4: Folks will be askin’, ‘Who’s that bright country Jake?’.
at jake, n.1
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 31 Dec.1/5: [headline] Is Jim Crowism Growing in Chicago? [...] Many of the theatres Jim Crow the negro nd he is jim crowed in vrious other ways.
at Jim Crow, v.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 31 Dec.1/5: [headline] Is Jim Crowism Growing in Chicago?
at Jim Crow, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 31 Dec. 1/6: All these things have a tendency to cause the whites to resort to jim crow tactics.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City) 20 Sept. 1/2: Mr Stewart’s managers had actually bought three pulpit ranters and bible pounders.
at bible-pounder (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City) 20 Sept. 1/2: Mr Stewart’s managers had actually bought three pulpit ranters and bible pounders.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City) 19 Aug. 4/1: Rev. Abraham L. Murray [...] the wild and noisy bible pounder of Bethel Church.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 16 Sept. 4/6: Death of Billy Johnson of [...] ‘The trip to Coon Town’.
at Coontown (n.) under coon, n.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 8 Jan. 5/2: Those of us who shuffle off this mortal coil [etc.].
at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 25 Nov. 2/5: It is even futile to give up on the struggle and become a ‘no-account nigger’.
at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
[US] Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 4 Mar. 1/1: The colored doctors connected with [Fort Dearborn Hospital] always had a monkey and parrot time [when] they met to discuss its affairs.
at parrot and monkey time, n.
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