![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States")
Day Book (Chicago) 14 Oct. 13/1: Wouldn’t a lynching of the dope peddler be better calculated to protect society.at peddler, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 14 Oct. 13/1: Wouldn’t a lynching of the dope peddler be better calculated to protect society. Day Book (Chicago) 11 Dec. 4: [photo caption] This picture was snapped at federal court [...] two of the ten indicted beef barons.at baron, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 13 Nov. 19/1: Those fellows ‘know beans’ all right.at know beans (v.) under beans, n.3
Day Book (Chicago) 23 Nov. 15/1: Policemen and Pullman porters wear blue suits. And they have the edge on you, for they have brass buttons.at edge, n.1
Day Book (Chicago) 27 Nov. 2/2: He asserts the defense is trying to get an ‘inside’ line on his case.at inside, adj.
Day Book (Chicago) 14 Aug. 11/2: Sassoon stabbed his wooden leg th’oo a knot-hole in de flo’ [...] and cracks de Bishop’s bowed head ker-bim.at kerbim! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Day Book (Chicago) 27 Nov. 10/1: George Potato [...] arrested for trying to mash girls on the street.at mash, v.
Day Book (Chicago) 7 Dec. n.p.: ‘Maquard always looked like a million dollars against us,’ said Manager Dean of the Phillies.at look (like) a million dollars (v.) under million, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 18 Dec. 27/1: The check was palmed with nobody the wiser.at palm, v.
Day Book (Chicago) 15 Dec. 22/2: A friend with whom he passes much of the time [...] shuffling the pasteboards.at pasteboard, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 19 Dec. 2/2: By efficient management yu can make the riffle with one of those safety razors.at make the riffle (v.) under riffle, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 18 Dec. 10/2: The way to treat smutty plays is to have them all produced in one theater and bar young people.at smutty, adj.
Day Book (Chicago) 11 Dec. 23/2: Organized labor has a string to it, so long and twisted that to follow it to its end would bring on a severe attack of the blind staggers.at staggers, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 23 Oct. 4/1: A high monkey-monk who wants office.at high muck-a-muck, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 14 Sept. 18/1: It was his nature to do all things openly and above board.at above board, adv.
Day Book (Chicago) 18 Oct. 11/2: ‘So the ship news reporters slunk away, properly chastened.’ ‘Oh, absoballylutely chastened!’.at absoballylutely, adv.
Day Book (Chicago) 7 Dec. 24/1: He was what the old folks call ‘no account’.at no-account, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 5 Dec. 24/1: Gee whiz, ain’t it the truth that the surest thing in the show bisness is, you never can tell!at ain’t it (the truth), phr.
Day Book (Chicago) 8 May 14/1: Yess, and vot wass he. Just a pork-und-beaner. He did nod earn der chamiponship [sic].at pork-and-beaner, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 19 Dec. 9/1: R.E. Wood [...] charged with wife abandonment, said he would take ‘bandhouse’ sentence in preference to paying wife.at bandhouse, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 13 Sept. 16/2: ‘Sausages be blowed!’ said the would-be pheasant purchaser.at be-blowed!, excl.
Day Book (Chicago) 18 Mar. 21/1: Remarks conveying the idea that somebody doesn’t know beans about cards.at know beans (v.) under beans, n.3
Day Book (Chicago) 29 June 8/1: Those delegates who didn’t bring a roll big enough to choke a horse, haven’t the price of a drink left.at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
Day Book (Chicago) 2 Aug. 11/1: Johnson, alias ‘Big Chief’ [...] is the best pitching proposition in the league.at big chief (n.) under big, adj.
Day Book (Chicago) 31 May 29/1: When I get out o’ that bloody Bridewell I won’t beg. I’ll get a club and bingle somebody on the bean an’ gather in a few shekels that way.at bingle, v.
Day Book (Chicago) 6 Apr. 10/2: Is ‘guy’ a slang word? you ask me. Why sure [...] It means the same as ‘geke’ or ‘bloke’. Or ‘dub’ or ‘gink’.at bloke, n.
Day Book (Chicago) 8 May 12/1: Once there was a young blood who considered himself the entire Roquefort.at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
Day Book (Chicago) 31 May 26/2: Every once in a while Rev. James H. Gray would disappear, and somewhere in the West Virginia mountains James H. Graham would bob up.at bob up (v.) under bob, v.3
Day Book (Chicago) 27 Mar. 20/2: After having sold considerable whiskey to sporty young bucks [she] was charged with bootlegging.at bootleg, v.
Day Book (Chicago) 23 Nov. 4/1: The next practical joker who kids Chief of Police McWeeny about New York gunmen is liable to breed a scabn upon one’s nose.at breed a scab (on one’s nose) (v.) under breed, v.
load more results