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[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 24 Aug. [synd. strip cartoon] Dear Little Edith, I saw your mush in the paper today and on the square I think you’re a bear.
at bear, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 15 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] Cheese it. Boys make your getaway. I found a chick.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 14 July [synd. cartoon strip] A couple of cheese detectives are watching her room.
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 15 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] Cheese it. Boys make your getaway. I found a chick.
at chick, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 21 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] I see they put 13 chicken fanciers in the cooler yesterday — ha-ha [...] They won’t nab me.
at chicken fancier (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 17 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Three cheers for old coves.
at cove, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 27 Nov. [synd. cartoon strip] Say Bunk slip me a couple of bucks [...] I’m as flat as a pancake.
at flat, adj.2
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 21 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] What’s the Judge’s monnicker, Harry?
at monniker, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 17 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Extra poipa. Silk Hat Harry is Renoed from de ole lady.
at Renoed, adj.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 9 Oct. [synd. cartoon strip] That’s funny. I had a roll that a greyhound couldn’t jump over this morning. It’s gone.
at roll Jack Rice couldn’t jump over (n.) under roll, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 27 Nov. [synd. cartoon strip] I haven’t got a jitney — I spent the last one [...] for a scuttle o’ suds and played the counter for my eats.
at scuttle, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 14 July [synd. cartoon strip] Wrap yourself around the pie.
at wrap oneself around (v.) under wrap, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 18 Nov. [synd. cartoon strip] Aw take that noise outside. Get the air!
at get the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 13 Jan. [synd. cartoon strip] The dapper Englishman was really speaking harshly to the Bowery beauts.
at beaut, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 18 July [synd. cartoon strip] You piece of cheese. Why don’t you trade that dome of yours for a nice Brussels sprout.
at cheese, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 9 Oct. [synd. cartoon strip] ‘Did you hear the story about the fellow who bought the parrot that could speak seven languages?’ ‘Aw. That’s the last word in chestnuts. Columbus told that one to his sailors’.
at chestnut, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 8 Nov. [synd. cartoon strip] Me for the hay. I’ll have to make believe that I’m asleep.
at me for, phr.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 13 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Okk-Okouk (Monkey talk meaning loss of angora).
at lose one’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 6 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Ah my little honey-bug — who says Papa doesn’t think of his little wifey.
at honey-bun (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 31 Oct. [synd. cartoon strip] Bang! Zowie! Ka-plunk! The three men rushed in.
at kaplunk!, excl.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 11 Sept. [synd. cartoon strip] I’ve just been killing this fishing stuff [...] I caught 86 trout yesterday.
at kill, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 14 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Do you know young masher that you’re annoying my wife.
at masher, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 9 Jan. [synd. cartoon strip] ‘Gee whiz there’s my tailor for his dough’ [...] ‘I get de monish or I stop it de veddink’.
at monish, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 13 Nov. [synd. cartoon strip] You are charged with mooching upon the public highway.
at mooch, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 18 July [synd. cartoon strip] Tell her I’m out of town, see — stall her off.
at stall off, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 30 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] ‘Slick’ Sam, the press agent, was in his ossif doping out a press stunt.
at ossif, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 6 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] I’ll bring some roses home to keep solid.
at solid, adj.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 12 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] Showing route taken by the Hon. Judge Rumhauser who did his Xmas spugging early on the way home.
at spug, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 3 Jan. [synd. cartoon strip] Say, Judge, me and the lady wants to hook up. Will you tie the knot.
at tie the knot (v.) under tie, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 28 Dec. [synd. cartoon strip] ‘But who has to pay the crew?’ ‘Ow!!! I never gave that a tumble’.
at give someone a tumble (v.) under tumble, n.
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