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Pittsburgh Press (PA) 26 Dec. 3/3: I’d sit like a bump on a log through life, / And I wouldn’t do anything rash.at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 26 Dec. 3/3: I’d sit like a bump on a log through life, / And I wouldn’t do anything rash. Pittsburgh Press (PA) 11 Mar. 5/4: Now Hanlow is doing the tear-and-sob act.at sob act (n.) under sob, n.1
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 15 Nov. 11/5: The following words made up the list [i.e. of college slang] [...] Ball-up, bone, cinch, co-ed, cram, crib, fiend, flunk, fresh, fruit [etc].at ball-up, n.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 15 Nov. 11/5: When Yale students calla thing ‘smooth,’ ‘footless,’ or ‘rotten’ he is using slang and what is more, it is his own.at footless, n.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 7 Aug. n.p.: ‘Dang the moon!’ he growled.at dang, v.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 7 Aug. n.p.: ‘The kiddy out for a prowl, on his own ’ook,’ whispered Tom.at kiddy, n.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 12 Aug. 7/2: ‘Sure as shucks, he run his canoe up a-brach alongside Sally’s bow’.at sure as shucks under sure as..., phr.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 6 Nov. 20/2: Show me any team today that contains any such organized band of booze pushers.at booze-pusher (n.) under booze, n.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) Mag. 6 Nov. 43/1: He had to bant, to diet, to exercise, to do anything and evertyhing to keep himself from growing fat.at bant, v.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 11 Sept. 46/1: If to ‘talk straight from the shoulder’ signifies directness of aim and weight of blow, I should strive after both.at straight from the shoulder, adv.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 Aug. 21/5: He hopped into a booze garage [...] and proceeded to get ossified.at booze garage (n.) under booze, n.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 17 Apr. 20/6: ‘When she got started abusing me [...] I would sit quiet, just like a bump on a log’.at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 Aug. 21/5: He hopped into a booze garage [...] and proceeded to get ossified.at ossified, adj.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 19 Sept. 8/7: Luke admitted that he became stewed to the eyebrows.at stewed to the gills (adj.) under stewed, adj.1
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 29 Aug. 48/2: ‘A word to the wise are suffish, ain’t it?’.at suff, adj.
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 6 Apr. 25/3: [C]lubs which mowed down all opposition in Marched finished in the booby-coop in October.at booby-coop (n.) under booby, n.1
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 14 June 12/5: ‘By gollies!’ said Gus.at golly!, excl.
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XIX in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 25 May 25/1: ‘We had those badger haircuts —the kind like maw used to give you when she put the crock over your head and cut off the hair that stuck out around the edges’.at badger, n.2
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XV in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 May 31/1: ‘I used to be cinch for any one to pop on the chin’.at cinch, n.1
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ XXVIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 June 23/3: Demspey wore an ice-cream suit of clothes, one of those very light-colored affairs.at ice-cream suit (n.) under ice-cream, n.
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ XXIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 5 June 32/2: A more timid person [...] might wel have hesitated about visiting an expert razor swinger in reach of his cutlery.at cutlery, n.
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XV in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 May 31/1: ‘I was certainly duck soup for boxers in the training camps, because they could knock me about as they pleased ’.at duck soup, n.
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XX in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 26 May 24/6: ‘Price would come back sweating like a bull and all fagged out’.at fagged (out), adj.
‘A Tale of two Fists’ VIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 30 Apr. 25/4: A ‘gaycat’ in the parlance of the road, is a ridiculous sort of individual who will stoop to work if he gets the slightest opportunity.at gaycat, n.
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ IV in Pittsburgh Press (PA) Financial Sect. 20 Apr. 6/1: Any person who has had any experience [...] with the gentlemen of the road can tell that Dempsey has been about a bit.at gentleman of the road (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ XXVIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 16 June 23/2: My hero’s chin may inadvertently meet up with one of Jess’s big, bone grub-grabbers.at grub hooks (n.) under grub, n.2
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XVIII in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 21 May 27/1: It might shock the promoters to see a $300 fighter come into town ‘on the hummer’.at on the hummer under hummer, n.3
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ XXIV in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 8 June 27/8: ‘My Jiminy, how it hurt!’.at by jiminy! (excl.) under jiminy!, excl.
‘A Tale of two Fists’ XIX in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 25 May 25/1: [They] could not have recalled the name of Bill’s phenom two hours later .at phenom, n.
‘A Tale of Two Fists’ XXIV in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 8 June 27/8: ‘Say, she was a pip’.at pip, n.2
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