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...Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three bits of cockney slang, by the way, are worth half an hour of the choicest native profanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...Tight Fisted Peasants"-"Fists" being Bolshevik slang for Kulaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Correspondent Willis J. Abbot introduced into his cable such recondite or non-existent U.S. slang phrases as "spot the lady." Cabled he: "The peoples of the United States are today busily engaged in trying to 'spot the lady' in the most puzzling presidential election that has ever taken place in the North American continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Column 3, page 15. "Dole" is good canonical English and not slang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Slang for the State's allowance for the unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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