didos

I was sitting one evening in a friend's house, conversing about these marauding parties, when I remarked to him that a stop should be put to such "didos," and declared, that, the next time a slaveholder came to a house where I was, I would refuse to admit him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

"Haven't been out of the stable for a week," explained Tom cooly as the roans plunged and danced, and "cut up didos" generally, as Uncle Henry remarked.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

He knew the value of shingles, and was not without some appreciation for frescoes and porticoes and didos, but he liked to reach them in the ordinary course of logical procedure.

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

Just as soon as the talk about one of your didos fades away you do something else to start it up again.

Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

She slipped away from us in the dark, making for the mainland, and we were looking for her when we saw your searchlight cutting up such queer didos, so the Panther dropped behind to investigate.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

The old familiar headliness were reappearing side by side -- high finance exposures, graft, the antics and didos cut up by the sons and daughters of big millionaires; and after them in cheery succession the Yale-Harvard game, a new man for the Giants, a new college building for Cornell, a new city plan for

His Family Ernest Poole 1915

The privilege to indulge in such didos is not, as a matter of fact, especially dear to them.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

When I got up and squared around, there was that man we just left cutting didos out of black paper.

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Williams 'residence, often covered with skaters, some "cutting didos," as fancy skating was called, others racing, others pulling chairs and sleds on which were seated ladies, all the prettier because the cool morning air brought roses to their cheeks.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

Wan't no monkey shines or didos cut up in this town that young Cy wan't into.

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907