Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what wishes they harbor in their ghostly hearts were revealed last week by the police. They wish for magic powders potent to bring back an erring wife or husband; for herbs that will "Tie Down Goods" (i.e., keep the object of their affections from departing), for "Boss Fix Powders" (roots and simples that will keep an employer in a halcyon mood), for fusions that will win the heart of the most austere maiden. Throaty voices extol in music the virtues of such medicines...
Specimen Dialect and Moralizing. Wing Foo, cook: "Boss Big Bloy him no catch um happness, nobody catch um happness. Boss Big Bloy him catch um Missee Nola, evlybody catch um happness?that mo bette...
...dollar a minute, yessir, a dollar a minute," I heard . . . "Yes, we have two maids now" . . . "And the boss said, 'I've been watching you, young fellow,' and I want . . ." "The hours after supper did it." . . . "'Do you think you could swing Jim Perkins' job?" he asks me and I says, 'Sure, I been working with the I. C. S. evenings!" . . . "I bought Mary that dress she wanted, and I says, 'Take this, I'm making real money...
...wife is boss, talk to her until it is time to get the check. Then turn to the husband and suggest that, of course, he would like the stock certificates made out in his wife's name. From that minute on the wife is with you to the finish and the sale is sure...
...Canadian loggers that swung axes, mattocks and murderous steam-warped wooden pitchforks upon the troops of Queen Victoria in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, there roared a thick-thewed, bellicose, hairy giant named Paul Bunyon. At his skull-crushing feats in that episode, and his later accomplishments as a boss logger, lumber camp historians have marveled ever since...