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[US] Comet (Johnson City, TN) 24 Nov. 2/4: Johnson City Does Not Want 1 Saloon / 1 Gambling House / 1 Crooked Street / 1 Pigtail Alley [...] nor any ‘one thing’ that does not add to the prosperity of the city.
at pigtail alley (n.) under pigtail, n.
[US] Comet (Johnson City, TN) 18 June 2/6: It is not the man that is appreciated, it is only his memory that is bumfuddled all over with the honey words of hypocrisy.
at bumfuddled, adj.
[US] Comet (Johnson City, TN) 18 June 2/6: I got fined seven dollars for chinnin’ a cop who had collared my brother.
at chin, v.
[US] Comet (Johnson City, TN) 20 July 5/2: Scissors and jeeswax! See that Jew eat hog meat!
at scissors!, excl.
[US] Comet (Johnson City, TN) 1 Nov. 3/6: Ham, eggs [...] doughnuts, ’simmon pudding, punkin pie, and all sorts of goodies.
at goodies, n.
[US] Comet (TN) 1 Nov. 3/6: That pigeon-toed, box-ankled, knock-kneed, son-of-a-gun of a thief.
at sonofagun, n.
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