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[US] Crisis 26 Dec. 4/1: The Judge refers to the manner of passing important laws in Congress and so mixing them up that any one less gifted than ‘a Philadelphia lawyer’ could never find them [DA].
at Philadelphia lawyer, n.
[US] Crisis 17 Feb. 31/2: Let Shoddyites, contractors all, Fall down and worship Uncle Ned [DA].
at Ned, n.
[US] Crisis 17 Feb. 31/2: Let Shoddyites, contractors all, Fall down and worship Uncle Ned [DA].
at shoddyite (n.) under shoddy, adj.
[US] Crisis (Chillicothe, MO) 8 Nov. n.p.: Our hero sprang upon the floor [...] ‘Dog my melts, I am the tiger of the woods’.
at dog my cat(s)/doggone/hide/melts! (excl.) under dog, v.2
[US] letter in Crisis 47-48 219/3: It is tragic that young college Negroes should be exposed to such Uncle Tomism.
at Uncle Tomism (n.) under Uncle Tom, n.
[US] Crisis Mar. 79: Americans have ‘gone overboard’ for the dances of our neighbor nations to the south.
at overboard, adj.
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