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[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 16 June 14/4: Dade is the fellow who had an alley apple bounced off his head recently.
at alley apple (n.) under alley, n.1
[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 22 Apr. 7/5: Are you yelling like Helen Blazes about mail order houses.
at Helen!, excl.
[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 16 Nov. 9/5: Towles scored a place kick for the Cornhuskers [i.e. U. Nebraska football team].
at corn-husker (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 13 Mar. 5/2: That blear-eyed, brandy-breathed, blossom nose, blotted face, bulging bodied boozer.
at brandy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 5 Mar. 5/3: Scvoville’s sermon last night was [...] full of ‘hot shots’.
at hot-shot, n.
[US] Dly Gate City (Keokuk, IA) 25 Jan. 2/3: To hell with peace talks [...] while those slantheads [i.e. Germans] across the line are enslaving French [...] women and children.
at slanthead, n.
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