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[US] Chicago Sporting Gazette 11 Aug. n.p.: Miss Kit Thompson [...] had better let up on taking other girls’ men into her room and buying booze for them.
at booze, n.
[US] Chicago Sporting Gazette 11 Aug. n.p.: The giveaway of West Washington Street is Stella Foster, the most charitable done in Chicago — so all the boys say that know her.
at done, n.1
[US] Chicago Sporting Gazette 11 Aug. n.p.: The Sutherlands (Jet and Ida) who keep a ‘goosing-slum’ on North Clark Street, have not paid the $20 borrowed from a lady friend.
at goosing slum, n.
[US] Chicago Sporting Gazette 4 Aug. n.p.: Whatinell has become of little drunken May Willard?
at what in hell...?, phr.
[US] Chicago Sporting Gazette 4 Aug. n.p.: There is a lot of snide young tid-bits at 376 State Street.
at snide, adj.
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