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Swagger   Serio-comic and ballad vocalist
Swain   American song and dance artistes
Swallow   Dashing serio-comic and ballad vocalist
Swamp   Tyrolean vocalist
Swamped   Irish ballad vocalist
Swan   Extempore vocalist
Swarm   Extempore duetists
Swarmed   Musical marvels
Swarthy   Anglo-American variety artistes
Swash   Troupe of performing Arabs
Swasher   Troupe of Arab acrobats and jugglers
Swathe   Arab jugglers and snake charmers
Sway   Singers and dancers
Swear   Hindoo snake charmer
Sweat   Japanese equilibrists and jugglers
Swede   Eccentric song and dance artistes
Swedish   Breakneck knockabout comedians
Sweeper   Breakneck negro comedians
Sweeten   Protean change artistes
Sweetish   Any novely may write
Sweetly   Any entertainment new to town may write
Sweetness   Lightning change artiste
Swell   Can you kindly make our turn —
Swelling   The electric star
Swerve   The electric comedian
Swift   The electric duettists
Swim   The electric trio
Swimmer   Every artiste engaged is required to do two turns
Swindle   Must not appear at any other hall in the town
Swine   Have the chance of working another turn
Swing   No objection to your working another turn
Swinish   If to work two turns shall require —
Swiss   The electric quartette
Switch   It is part of the contract that you must not work any turn within four miles of my establishment until this engagement has terminated
Swivel   Hibernian knockabout comedians
Swob   Shakespearean clown and jester
Swobber   What turn can we (or I) have
Swollen   The royal jester
Swoon   The Queen's jester
Swooned   King of the invisible wire
Swop   Can do two turns if required
Sword   Cannot agree to work two turns
Swung   Will make your turn —
Sybarite   Champion of the invisible wire
Sycamore   Wizard of the wilderness
Sycophant   American wizard and conjuror
Syllabub   Magician and prestidigitateur
Sylph   Thought reader
Sylvan   Monologue entertainer
Symbol   Variety sketch artists
Symbolic   Specialty artists
Symmetry   Bicycle performers
Sympathy   Champion bicyclists
Symphony   Horizontal bar performers
Symptom   Flying trapese performers
Synagogue   Acrobats, clowns, and gymnasts
Syncope   Acrobats and gymnasts
Syndic   Equilibrist and juggler
Syndicate   Equilibrist and wire walker
Synod   High rope performer
Synodal   Work either with or without net
Synopsis   Grotesque musical clowns
Syntax   Male impersonator
Syphon   Troupe of clown cricketers
Syrian   Female impersonator
Syringe   Fancy and comic skaters
Syrup   Champion roller skaters
System   Champion swimmer of England
Systematic   Champion swimmer and diver
ex Woods’s Bohemian Telegraph Code
with which is incorporated Woods’s Theatrical, Musical and Equestrian Telegraph Code Book, Many new features have been introduced, including A Special Sporting Code…
Second Edition. Revised, improved and enlarged, to meet the wants of Actors, Actresses, Agents, Variety, Equestrian, and other Artistes, Theatrical and other Managers, Tradesmen, Travellers, Police, Private Detectives, Confidential Agents, Sportsmen, Hotel Proprietors, &c., and enable voluminous correspondence with Bohemians generally to be carried on through the medium of a Sixpenny Telegram.
S. R. Woods & Co., Blenheim Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England (1886)
BL 8756.aaa.35