1900-1919 Slang

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Across
  1. 3. bathtub Cumbersome or otherwise inferior airplane.
  2. 5. Ketchup, in army slang
  3. 6. Small, cheap automobile
  4. 10. furlough Absent without leave
  5. 11. Automobile, to a pedestrian or horse driver
  6. 13. Be a huge success.
  7. 15. Army chaplain; Charlie (as in Chaplin), Holy Joe
  8. 16. Pretty girl
  9. 17. Fatal wound
  10. 18. Impressive persons.some punkins
  11. 21. Conceited
  12. 22. Self-serve, coin-operated cafeteria where cold foods were sold out of closed, see-through compartments that were refilled by kitchen staff.
  13. 23. Excellent person (or thing), or an adjective used to describe such a person
  14. 24. cabbage Sauerkraut, hamburgers. The word liberty was used to replace common words of German origin during World War 1.
Down
  1. 1. skirt Full-length skirt gathered at the bottom to resemble Turkish pantaloons
  2. 2. Short reel of film covering news and gossip that was screened before the main feature at a movie theatre
  3. 4. Cowboy movie.
  4. 7. Young woman who worked on a farm in place of a man during World War I
  5. 8. Flip an automobile upside-down
  6. 9. Canned salmon, as referred to by World War I troops.
  7. 12. Long smock worn to keep clothes clean while driving.
  8. 14. team Ballroom dancers.
  9. 19. Women’s shirt resembling a men’s shirt, with starched collar and small necktie, but tailored to a woman’s figure
  10. 20. Women’s hairstyle characterized by piling the hair high on the head and softly puffing it around the face.