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Evening Statesman choose

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[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 18 Nov. 6/2: What the ‘Y’ is Doing [...] 2098 young women have been [...] taken to good families, or given rooms at the Y.W.C.A.
at Y, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 4 Apr. 4/2: Pouring lighjt nothings into the not unwilling ear of the ‘badger man’s’ female confederate ever was a dangerous divertisement.
at badger-man (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 4 Apr. 4/2: To be lured [...] by a ‘badger’ girl is not alone criminal but...
at badger moll (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 3 Mar. 4/5: Now that is just about as clear as mud.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 11 Aug. 1/5: [headline] Farm Hand Blacksnaked. Stranger given a severe whipping.
at blacksnake, v.
[US] Eve. Statesman 14 Dec. 1/1: The Walla Walla Produce company received another cartload of the ‘German’s delight’ [...] The cabbage is of very fine quality.
at German’s delight (n.) under German, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/2: Remarking that Blinks has Jinks [...] beat to a frazzle, or a hard-boiled frazzle.
at hard-boiled, adj.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/3: As for the Stew, he is a Boob or a Lob who, in addition to his Boobery or Lobbery, adds the speciality of inebriety.
at boobery, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 21 Dec. 1/7: I dona wanata die [...] You understand? Make no confesh. See?
at confesh, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/3: We [in NY] don’t ‘cut it out’, and don’t tell anybody else to cut it out. We say, ‘Oh, can that stuff!’.
at cut it, v.1
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/2: Remarking that Blinks has Jinks [...] beat to a frazzle, or a hard-boiled frazzle.
at beat to a frazzle (v.) under frazzle, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/2: Remarking that Blinks has Jinks [...] beat to a frazzle, or a hard-boiled frazzle.
at frazzle, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/2: Three iron men are three dollars.
at iron man (n.) under iron, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/3: As for the Stew, he is a Boob or a Lob who, in addition to his Boobery or Lobbery, adds the speciality of inebriety.
at lob, n.2
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/3: When we enterain fittingly we [...] ‘lick up the wealthy water,’ or the ‘sassy suds’.
at sassy suds (n.) under sassy, adj.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/2: He would no more say ‘skidoo’ when he wished an acquaintance to vanish than he would say ‘twenty-three!
at twenty-three skidoo!, excl.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 5 Mar. 3/3: When we enterain fittingly we [...] ‘lick up the wealthy water,’ or the ‘sassy suds’.
at wealthy water, n.
[US] Eve. Statesman (Walla Walla, WA) 19 Feb. 3/6: The Mackintosh, quoted in some books at 100 to 1, was the real persimmon.
at real persimmon, the (n.) under persimmon, n.
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