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  2. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Woman's legs [149] gander 1. Dressing up; Getting ready and duding up [149] 2. Look, close scrutiny, glance e.g. Take a gander at those gams [185] 3. Criminal lookout [185] gandy dancer. Main article: Gandy dancer. A member of a crew responsible for attaching rails to ties, often called a section hand or track laborer [186] gashouse rough [19 ...

  3. Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

  4. Public Ledger (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    The newspaper ran anti-union advertisements during the 1919 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America strike, and ran no advertisements supporting the strike. [11] In 1930, despite the circulation slump caused by the Great Depression, Curtis expanded by buying The Philadelphia Inquirer for $18 million, but he did not consolidate the two ...

  5. List of American advertising characters - Wikipedia

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    1930–1969, 1976–present: In 1932 Apatosaurus became the company trademark after a 1930 ad campaign associated dinosaurs with Mesozoic Era origins of Sinclair's Pennsylvania petroleum. [12] Mr. Six: Six Flags theme parks: 2004–2005, 2009–present: dances to Vengaboys' "We Like to Party!" The Snapple Lady: Snapple: 1990–1994, 1996–2008

  6. List of newspaper comic strips - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.

  7. Marion Roberts - Wikipedia

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    Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. [5] There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn friends with Diamond and introduced them. [1]

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  9. Ladies of Leisure - Wikipedia

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    Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, and Lowell Sherman.The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play Ladies of the Evening by Milton Herbert Gropper, which ran for 159 performances on Broadway.