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[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 28 Dec. 2/1: Among the ‘upper crust’ of darkeydom.
at upper crust, n.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 19 June 1/6: When [...] the white grandsire shall affectionately pat his nappy-headed grandson.
at nappy-headed (adj.) under nappy head, n.
[US] Charleston News (SC) 15 Aug. 3/2: I must confess that our old fame fogyism has not always thought wrightsome of these odd come short days.
at odd-come short, n.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 23 May 1/2: O, de ole nigger driver! / O gwine away! / [...] / Nigger-driver second devil / O gwine away!
at nigger-driver, n.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 12 Aug. 4/1: It must be a furious, fiery [...] rip-snorting [...] pitching in.
at rip-snorting, adj.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 19 May 1/3: Mothers’ boys [...] have been kept tied up to the apron string to the last moment.
at tied to someone’s apron-strings (adj.) under apron-strings, n.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 3 July 3/3: [The] American eagle that flowed across the seas., / And brought the British lion kerslump upon his knees.
at kerslump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 26 Jan. 1/6: The Banting system of diet is explained.
at bant, v.
[US] Charleston Dly News (SC) 26 Jan. 1/3: ‘Pigtail Alley,’ the great lurking place of vice, was soon a smoking ruin.
at pigtail alley (n.) under pigtail, n.
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