Test Your Slang! (27 February 1938)

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   From THIS WEEK magazine, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, pg. 11, col. 1:

_Test Your Slang!_
by A. I. Green
(...)  (100 is the berries--ed.)
DEFINITION              A          B           C
1. a comrade            shavetail  jonah       side-kick
2. a miser              mutt       stooge      tightwad
3. a black eye          hooligan   shiner      bean
4. a blackguard         bonehead   roughneck   nifty
5. silly                batty      phony       ritzy
6. tough                sore       leery       hard-boiled
7. a listless person    topnotcher flat tire   high brow
8. to shirk duty        souse      mooch       scrimshank
9. to swindle           bull       cuff        wangle
10. nonsense            whoopee    jerry       flubdubbery

Pg. 23, col. 2:
"Slang" Answers
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. C
10. C