1881 Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: To travel with a theatrical company though interior towns is called ‘barnstorming’.at barnstorm, v.
1881 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.
1881 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.
1881 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
1881 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
1881 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
1881 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.
1881 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.
1881 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.
1881 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
1881 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
1881 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
1881 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.
1881 Daily L.A. Herald 13 Aug. 2/3: The circus people are called ‘sawdust pounders’.at sawdust pounder (n.) under sawdust, n.2
1883 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.