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Chicago Inter-Ocean 2 June 6/3: Providence registered her second defeat for the Buckeye blue-legs this afternoon, the visitors taking kindly to Ward’s curves, Dunlap and McCormick especially getting on to him in fine style [DA].at get onto, v.
Chicago Inter-Ocean 2 June 6/3: Providence registered her second defeat for the Buckeye blue-legs this afternoon, the visitors taking kindly to Ward’s curves, Dunlap and McCormick especially getting on to him in fine style [DA]. Chicago Inter-Ocean 11 June 8/1: They Take Troy, The Chicago Club Does Vanquish the Nine of That Classic Village [DA].at take, v.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 17 Jan. 4/4: The people of St Louis have just found out that thjey are buttering their bread with oleomargarine instead of genuine ‘cow grease’.at cow grease (n.) under cow, n.1
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Feb. 6/5: Denver has been sick for a week — sick as a lame cat in a deserted garage.at …a cat (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 6 Mar. 8/1: ‘You can’t get reports of burglaries and hold-ups now, and you will never know what the strong-arm workers are doing’.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Chicago Inter-Ocean 6 Feb. n.p.: A possibility of possuming among those [i.e. grizzlies] stretched out below.at possum, v.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 6 Mar. 8/1: A padlock is to be put on the ‘squeal book’ and no information is to be given to the press.at squeal-book (n.) under squeal, n.1
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 16 Feb. 17/2: The coxcombs of this epoch [...] corseted and powdered and nancified looking.at nancified (adj.) under nancy, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 5 Mar. 12/1: The Republicans are undecided whether to let the hide go with the tallow or try to save the entire carcase.at let the hide go with the tallow (v.) under tallow, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 14 Oct. 9/7: Clever Bank Swindler [...] The fact that the man made such an easy touch [...] shows him to be something of an artist.at easy touch (n.) under touch, n.1
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 21 May 1/7: This notorious ‘strongarm woman’ was under indictment for garrotting and robbing a victim on the levee.at strong-arm woman (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 4 Mar. 13/6: He was steered into McInerney’s joint. Whisky does not cost anything here for a man playing against the bank.at joint, n.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 4 Mar. 13/3: There are at least eight men on the outside, bouncers, streeters and pluggers .at plugger, n.3
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 4 Mar. 13/3: There are at least eight men on the outside, bouncers, streeters and pluggers .at streeter (n.) under street, v.
(ref. to 1866-68) Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 Sept. 17/7: Gambling in the old Days [...] It was one of two brace houses and the fellers that worked there was so crooked that the slept in beds made in the shape of the letter S.at brace house, n.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 3 Mar. 3/7: Snollygosters have apparent control by one vote.at snollygoster, n.
Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 2 Feb. 42/2: The bear got hold of the bottle of stingo and liked its smell and taste.at stingo, n.1
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/4: The red-and-black ate that final $100 [...] and then I was all in except a few dollars loose change.at all in, adj.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/7: We just observed that you were to the bad [i.e. drunk] last night.at to the bad under bad, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/3: I was just $1,200 on the blut [...] I had been bad, and a lot.at on the blut (adj.) under blut, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/5: I [...] went down to John L’s to see if the old man could put me wise to the bogus banks.at bogus, adj.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/7: I couldn’t see anything but the French suds, and I dropped into John L’s [where] I met a bundle of booze grafters [...] and executed the Rube stunt of purchasing a few quarts for them.at booze grafter (n.) under booze, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/3: New Yorker’s Experience in a Brace Game [...] A runner for a brace faro bank got next to me [...] and went along with him [ibid.] 34/7: I recognized [him] instantly as the brace dealer who had dished them out to me while I was in a haze on the previous night.at brace game, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/2: I was feeling so much like a cut-up on account of the cute win.at cut-up, n.1
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 17 Dec. 3/1: [Mickey] Finn gave his customers ‘dope’ when one of them got foolish with drink in his place.at dope, n.1
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 17 Dec. 3/1: ‘Mickey’ Finn’s Lone Star saloon was lonely last night and his palm garden was not palmy. Finn’s ‘knock-out’ drops are charged with ‘knocking him out’ of business.at mickey finn, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/4: Not even in the half-on-the-level plants was it esteemed the proper quirk to let a soused man push over his gig-lamps for chips.at gig-lamps, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/3: The boy [was] gazing significantly at my glisterinos. I tossed a $300 solitaire ring [...] over to the dealer.at glisterino, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/4: I was just $1,200 on the blut — $700 in the yellow papers, a $300 third-finger twink, and a $200 search-glim.at headlight, n.
Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Jan. 34/6: It’s not squealing to put up a holler for stuff you’ve been phonied out of.at put up a holler (v.) under holler, n.
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