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[US] Citizen (Dublin) Apr. 406/1: I [...] always prefer something more substantial to that wishey-washey tea — nasty scandal-broth, only fit for women.
at scandal-broth, n.
[US] Citizen (NZ) 1 87: Some time or other the yellow man would wipe the white man out of existence. The cheapest producers, ‘Japs,’ and ‘Chows,’ are too unpleasantly near our doors. We must, in New Zealand, protect ourselves against the Yellow Agony.
at yellow agony (n.) under yellow, adj.
[US] Citizen (Honesdale, PA) 7 June 78/1: It was [...] Solid ivory Splivins, the walking delebgate of the Detectives’ Union, which numbers among its members [...] Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq, Old King Brady.
at solid ivory (adj.) under solid, adj.
[US] Citizen (Honesdale, PA) 31 May 2/3: Down she came like a ripe apple. It was a kerchug of a drop.
at kerchug! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Citizen (Honesdale, PA) 13 Dec. 8/2: [heading] Christmas Eve in Poverty Row.
at Poverty Row, n.
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