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[US] A. Baer Putting ’Em Over 4 Dec. [synd. col.] September standings of the clubs indicate that some teams go so far south in the spring that they keep the habit all summer .
at go south (v.) under south, adv.
[US] A. Baer Putting ’Em Over 13 Mar. [synd. col.] Baseball magnates aren’t worrying about the green material in the training camps. The green material they are thinking of is in the fans’ pockets.
at green, n.2
[US] A. Baer Putting ’Em Over 12 June [synd. col.] That’s money out of the club’s jeans.
at in(to) one’s jeans under jeans, n.
[US] A. Baer Putting ’Em Over 19 June [synd. col.] Matty slipped the Giants the old razzberry.
at give someone the raspberry (v.) under raspberry, n.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 26 Apr. [synd. col.] That family you gave the air to because they wouldn’t kick in when you jolted the rent up eleven notches.
at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 23 Apr. [synd. col.] Looks like Tarzan Ruth is out to hang up a new mileage record for that stitched apple. he sure spanks that old cocoanut.
at apple, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 4 Nov. [synd. col.] One snooter used to make this baby sicker than a Cook’s tourist on the second day out.
at baby, n.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 5 Apr. [synd. col.] We don’t know whether the bally referee was a believer in the ocult [sic].
at bally, adj.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 27 Jan. [synd. col.] The ballyhoo resembles two steamrollers crazy with the heat [...] a blizzard of busted teeth comes sailing out of the ring.
at ballyhoo, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 17 Jan. [synd. col.] The long established bar rag who has been swallowing ’em in the same place for forty years.
at bar rag (n.) under bar, n.2
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 18 Apr. [synd. col.] All the girls will be right out of the barrel on Easter Sunday. They’ll be furnished new from their bunions to their hat pins.
at right out of the barrel (adj.) under barrel, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 16 Jan. [synd. col.] Doesn’t make any difference if you [...] wear a purple derby, provided that you can smack the berry.
at berry, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 25 May [synd. col.] The bugs have no use for the beezark who carries a picture of himself in the back of his watch. It’s a crippled loving cup that only has one handle. [Ibid.] 29 May [synd. col.] Saddest thing outside of a wet straw hat is to marry an old beezark for his money and not get it.
at bezark, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 18 Feb. [synd. col.] The dukes and kings will trot out the royal dice and let Little Joe or Big Richard do the talking.
at big dick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 16 July [synd. col.] The old blimp knows he can’t finish the voyage [i.e. round of golf] with only five pills in his fuel tank.
at blimp, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 27 Dec. [synd. col.] The men who were elected to bring disorder out of chaos have blimped on the job.
at blimp, v.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 11 Jan. [synd. col.] Even the Gobb of Siam knows that two boxcars are a pair of sixes.
at boxcars, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 19 Feb. [synd. col.] Buffalo carved a couple of bones out of ice and stuck magnets on ’em for spots.
at buffalo, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 10 Feb. [synd. col.] He shook [...] his kids’ clay banks down for the buttons.
at button, n.1
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 11 Jan. [synd. col.] A Yank sailor armed with a pair of water wings and a set of celluloid biscuits [...] he could sure control those lil’ square bones with the round corners.
at celluloid biscuits (n.) under celluloid, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 8 Feb. [synd. col.] Dempsey [...] training for that twenty-seven thousand certificates.
at certificate, n.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 26 Apr. [synd. col.] His best dope is never to endorse a note [...] Chaunce also chats us not to carry a bundle by the string if we want to live a hundrd innings .
at chat, v.1
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 11 Jan. [synd. col.] Even the Gobb of Siam knows that [...] a pair of Chinaman’s eyes mean two aces.
at Chinaman’s eyes (n.) under Chinaman, n.
[US] A. Baer Two & Three 4 Apr. [synd. col.] Chirp of the highbrows is no more Hofbraus.
at chirp, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 10 Feb. [synd. col.] The Sultan of Cold Turkey has got the bug.
at cold turkey, n.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 4 Feb. [synd. col.] Down in Georgia they gargle near-beer But the wise crackers down there pack fountain pens that contain everything but ink.
at cracker, n.3
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 25 Jan. [synd. col.] Makes a speech while eating shad. That proves he’s coo-coo.
at cuckoo, adj.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 22 Feb. [synd. col.] ‘Doc, if you can make my dry cough a little damp, I’ll give all my friends your right address’.
at damp, adj.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 3 Mar. [synd. col.] This dinge had a complexion that darker than the inside of an old boot.
at dark as the inside of a cow (adj.) under dark, adj.
[US] A. Baer Two and Three 3 Feb. [synd. col.] The battle bugs smeared Fred with twelve grands and Fred dived like a frightened walrus.
at take a dive (v.) under dive, n.1
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