1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] They watch him pass. Drunker than a fiddler’s wench. Drunker than a bootlegger’s pal. Drunk as the devil himself.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he manicure girls in the barber shop give him the out-and-out sneer and the hat-check girls and even the floor girls [...]—all of whom he has tried to date up—they all respond with an identical raspberry to his invitations.at out-and-out, adj.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [S]he told me he was some baby on music.at baby, n.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] A violation of section 2012 of the City Code. Thirty days in the Bastile, Fanny.at bastille, n.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [S]he points to a beetle-browed citizen with an unshaven face.at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I knew there would be warrants and commotion, the deal having flopped and a lot of prominent citizens feeling as if they had been bilked.at bilk, v.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘Barry, old top, if you will chase the blighter after another highball, I'll drink your excellent health’.at blighter, n.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘I got an idee he’d blow in tonight. He ain’t missed a Saturday night for months’.at blow in, v.2
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [W]e are what we are—browbeaten, weary-eyed, terribly optimistic units of the boobilariat.at booby, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Jazz songs, ballads, sad, silly, boobish nut songs—all about love me—love me.at booby, adj.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The bassoon and the bull fiddle—they umpah ump along. Underneath the quaver and whine of the jazz they beat the time [...] The feet dancing on the crowded cabaret floor listen cautiously for the trombone, the bassoon and the bull fiddle.at bull fiddle (n.) under bull, adj.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Lucky O'Connor, who had busted his way out of jail and was being hunted by a million people with guns [etc].at bust out, v.2
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I join a rubberneck crowd in one of the carryalls with a megaphone guy in charge.at carryall (n.) under carry, v.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] But he's got a good face, you might say. Class, eh? You'd know he was a musician.at class, adj.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Where you been hiding yourself? I thought you and I were cookies.at cookie, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The kind that hang on your words and breathe hard while you cut loose with the patter.at cut loose, v.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] But the city was such a razzle-dazzle of dreams, tragedies, fantasies [...] that it filled the newspaper man's thought from day to day with an irritating blur.at razzle-dazzle, n.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] There was music and dancing and a whoop-de-da-da in the amusement parks.at whoop-de-do, n.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Well, well, here's a howdeedo. His nobs is going to play the concerto. Good-by, good luck and God bless him.at how-do-you-do, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he "skeeter scale" that the orchestra used to turn turn turn taaaa-tum [...] as the two dockwallopers and the leering Chinaman were climbing in through little Mabel's hall bedroom window to abduct her.at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The curtain is up. Egad, what a masterly scene.at egad!, excl.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I could see that she was not only the kind of fish that lose their heads at auctions, but the terrible kind that believe everything the auctioneer says.at fish, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] There's Mr. Erbstein, for instance, the criminal lawyer. He's a pretty smart one [...] thought himself pretty foxy.at foxy, adj.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] A meal at the club, and gadzooks but his stomach was in arms!at gadzooks! (excl.) under gad, n.1
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] They are kind of goofily romantic and they fall hard for everything and they spend their last penny on a lot of truck.at goofily, adv.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] Mr. Martin [...] slipped from the window ledge, shaking down his wrinkled, high-water pants.at highwater, adj.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] ‘You should ought to hear the lads when they're hitting on all six’.at hit on all cylinders (v.) under hit, v.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] [T]he idea of Queen Bess blowing in $5,000 for a tally-ho layout to ride to the races in! Six horses and two drivers in yellow and blue livery and [...] the beribboned and painted coach bouncing down the boulevard.at tally-ho, adj.
1922 B. Hecht A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] I figured that the Nebraska coppers had let out a big holler and I thought it best to lay kind of low and keep out of trouble.at holler, n.