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[US] Dly Ohio Statesman (OH) 15 Aug. 2/3: The Black and Tan Convention [...] We would advise him to emigrate South [...] and prove his loyalty by hugging nigger wenches and insulting Southern white ladies.
at black and tan, adj.
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 13 June 1/4: Damnation [...] don’t split on me, for heavens sake.
at damnation!, excl.
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 13 June 1/3: If thou wilt only put me on the other side of this stream, dash my buttons if I’ll bother again.
at dash my buttons! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 16 Oct. 3/2: Elizabeth indulged too freely in benzine and other cordials used by the ladies of the ton, and became inflated, elevated, set up — drunk.
at elevated, adj.
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 13 June 1/4: I got hitched as fast as a little wizen-looking methody could do the job.
at Methody, n.
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 16 Oct. 3/2: Elizabeth indulged too freely in benzine and other cordials used by the ladies of the ton, and became inflated, elevated, set up — drunk.
at set-up, adj.
[US] Dly Ohio Statesman 13 June 1/4: I was tarnation soft on one woman.
at tarnation, adv.
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