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[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: To travel with a theatrical company though interior towns is called ‘barnstorming’.
at barnstorm, v.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: A ‘flybynight’ manager is one without money, and a wealthy one is called a ‘solid fixer‘.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He calls a beautiful woman a ‘lalla,’ a ‘dandy,’ or a ‘corker,’ and an ugly one a ‘chromo’.
at chromo, n.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He calls a beautiful woman a ‘lalla,’ a ‘dandy,’ or a ‘corker,’ and an ugly one a ‘chromo’.
at corker, n.2
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: Cull, you should have seen the frost his jags struck when he went on [i.e. on stage].
at cull, n.1
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He calls a beautiful woman a ‘lalla,’ a ‘dandy,’ or a ‘corker,’ and an ugly one a ‘chromo’.
at dandy, n.2
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: All actors, escept circus performers, are called fakirs and a costume is a ‘fakement’.
at fakement, n.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: All actors, except circus performers, are called fakirs and a costume is a ‘fakement’.
at fakir, n.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: Cull, you should have seen the frost his jags struck when he went on [i.e. on stage].
at frost, n.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: A prosperous man is ‘up in G’.
at up in G, phr.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He would wither the peerless pair by calling them ‘jays’ [...] or ‘ranks,’ or perhaps ‘hams’.
at ham, n.2
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: Cull, you should have seen the frost his jags struck when he went on [i.e. on stage].
at his jags (n.) under jag, n.2
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He would with the peerless pair by calling them ‘jays’ [...] or ‘ranks,’ or perhaps ‘hams’.
at jay, n.1
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: An astonished person is ‘knocked out’’.
at knock out, v.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: He calls a beautiful woman a ‘lalla,’ a ‘dandy,’ or a ‘corker,’ and an ugly one a ‘chromo’.
at lallapaloosa, n.
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: The circus people are called ‘sawdust pounders’.
at sawdust pounder (n.) under sawdust, n.2
[US] Daily L.A. Herald 31 May 5/1: Each successive cook [...] was kept [...] ‘to learn good manners and jump jim Crow’.
at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
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