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[US] Colored American 15 Nov. 3/3: The ‘home-boys’ with the Williams and Walker aggregation were sore over the frost they met with in the proud city of Washington .
at homeboy, n.
[US] Colored American (DC) 10 Nov. 3/1: The Mixologist Club is made up principally of the very useful gentlemen who tickle the popular palate with artistic combinations of the ‘fluid that cheers’.
at mixologist, n.
[US] Colored American (Wash., DC) 8 Dec. 4/1: Washington, who was then a ‘tin-star detective’, [...] decided to inform on Curtis.
at tin star (n.) under tin, adj.
[US] Colored American (DC) 25 Apr. 12/2: Why is that our so-called high muck-a-muck chruch people do not take stock on such things?
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] Colored American (DC) 7 Nov. 14/1: Jackled Negro lawyers are as thick as ‘bees’ in Washington, but they are harmless.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] Colored American (DC) 3 Oct. 2/1-2: Many readers can see that jim Crowism and the bloody hands of some of the sons of the late Kuklux have not retarded the children of slavery.
at Jim Crow, n.
[US] Colored American (DC) 3 Oct. 2/1-2: The Colored People Thrifty and Thriving, though Opposed by Jim Crow Legislation.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] Colored American (Wash., DC) 12 Nov. 7/1: Mr West is one of the home boys, and is popular with the home folks.
at homeboy, n.
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