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Early Havoc 56: The place teemed with excitement. This was meat and potatoes. A nice lively cockfight.at meat and potatoes, n.
Early Havoc 56: The place teemed with excitement. This was meat and potatoes. A nice lively cockfight. Early Havoc 129: Mother loved a nice quarrel, but lately she seemed to prefer a real knock-down-drag-’em-out brawl.at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
Early Havoc 113: The barnstorming tour didn’t prove to be a gold mine.at barnstorm, v.
Early Havoc 17: He had ‘oiled’ the local authorities, so there had been no sanitation beefs, no beefs about too many people in one building [...] no beefs at all.at beef, n.2
Early Havoc 170: ‘That big hunk of beef is sound asleep’.at beef, n.1
Early Havoc 231: [A] heavy-set leady wearing beetle-crushing shoes.at beetle-crusher (n.) under beetle, n.1
Early Havoc 17: This security had cost him a pretty boodle, but it was well worth it.at boodle, n.1
Early Havoc 36: Ex-marathoners [...] acted as trainers, nurses, cashiers, cooks, bouncers, and general cleaners.at bouncer, n.1
Early Havoc 11: I watched the hot dog being built. First the roll was taken out of a large tin pot, mustard was splashed across it [...] then came the frankfurter.at build, v.
Early Havoc 153: ‘Don’t miss tonight’s treadmill [...] a three-hour, dead-stop treadmill. This one is a buster’.at buster, n.1
Early Havoc 17: Mr Dankle was out to clip people [...] He wasn’t just a little chiseller; he was a big-time chiseller.at chiseler, n.
(con. 1926) Early Havoc 72: That was my first brush with a real con woman.at con-man, n.
(con. 1930) Early Havoc 213: ‘I been a winner four times [...] and I ain’t puttin’ up with no crummy goings-on’.at crummy, adj.2
(con. 1930) Early Havoc 203: ‘Patsy [...] is as close to being a gentleman as anybody I know.’ Scotty laughed out loud. ‘La-dee-da!’ he hooted.at la-di-da(h)!, excl.
Early Havoc 76: Louise was a a dazzler, her skin so perect [...] her dark eyes were serene.at dazzler, n.
Early Havoc 210: [H]e’s worked too hard all through this show. Look at him. He’s dished!’.at dished, adj.
Early Havoc 12: ‘And Company’ was dolled to the brim [...] bows everywhere and beading on her eyelashes.at dolled up, adj.
Early Havoc 16: ‘I had a dreamy dinner — no expense’.at dreamy, adj.
Early Havoc 230: ‘Minsky doesn’t expect me to...to be able to...’ ‘Are you kidding, Bobby scoffed, you haven’t got the equipment’.at equipment, n.
Early Havoc 93: Even the ladies of the evening, who behaved so wildly [were] more attractive.at lady of the evening (n.) under evening, n.
(con. c.1930) Early Havoc 43: Others had entered [a marathon dance] on a bet or dare and then left. Fallouts like these were expected.at fall out, v.
Early Havoc 29: She could sew, bead, knit and crochet such things as garters that were naughty and fast.at fast, adj.1
Early Havoc 65: ‘Well [...] he got in his feel, didn’t he?’.at feel, n.
Early Havoc 140: She was dragging her feet [...] Much too much I thought — pretty hammy.at hammy, adj.
Early Havoc 41: Only two hundred hours have been danced so far and already many couples have hit the hay.at hit the hay (v.) under hay, n.
(con. c.1920) Early Havoc 67: Holy gee, I’m as gay as can be.at holy gee! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
Early Havoc 228: The show was a sort of hopped-up version of Earl Carroll’s Vanities.at hopped (up), adj.
Early Havoc 217: That’s why he handed the loaded bottle to Pete — but [...] it was Patsy who drank the sleep in that pop bottle .at loaded, adj.
Early Havoc 53: ‘I’m awfull sorry about the — well, the bugs.’ ‘Aw hell! [...] We get loused up at least once in every show’.at louse up, v.
(con. 1920s) Early Havoc 20: We [i.e. marathon dancers} were ‘monkeys’ — monkeys in a caged arena.at monkey, n.
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