1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 220: ‘[T]hat’s a funny way for a black to pull the Dutch Act [...] with pills’.at Dutch act, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 83: ‘I think you love me’ ‘Do you?’ ‘You wouldn’t rub the bacon with me if you didn’t’.at rub bacons (v.) under bacon, n.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 231: ‘[T]hat’s when he proposed—over tea at the Plaza after he bounced me in the brougham’.at bounce, v.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 60: ‘He asked for the source of the filler, and the editor bucked the letter to me’.at buck, v.5
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 91: [He] was [...] down on his knees, clutching her legs, his face in her lap, all ready for a session of growling in the busby.at growl in her busby (v.) under busby, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 175: To tell you the truth, she was feeling buzzy. Not drunk—but a small, relaxed buzz.at buzzy (adj.) under buzz, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 161: ‘I crack my cookies every time. But I’ve learned how to do it. Now I don’t splatter my shoes’.at cookie, n.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 237: ‘[T]his is going to be a great night [...] ‘We won’t let anyone or anything crap it up’.at crap up (v.) under crap, v.2
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 170: [H]er wispy triangle was blond, and it was nice to show men that her collar and cuffs matched.at cuffs and collars (n.) under cuff, n.2
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 56: I was flooded with releases and invitations and press kits. Most of them went into Deep Six.at deep six, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 130: ‘Fred wanted to sleep in the raw, but I wouldn’t let him. ‘I’m not one of your fancy women, Fred,’.at fancy woman, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 137: ‘[Y]ou don’t really, honey, know what the hell it’s all about. What a flat you are! What a square!’.at flat, n.2
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 161: ‘I been in this precinct for twenty years. That’s maybe fifty-sixty floaters’.at floater, n.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 246: ‘I get off at midnight,’ the cop said. ‘May be,’ she said shrewdly, ‘but son, you ain’t getting on at midnight’.at get on, v.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 131: ‘What the hell’s the point of being married if you can’t jump in the hay any minute you feel like it?’.at roll in the hay, v.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 26: ‘They called me Hot Pants if you must know, because they thought I was always hot for a little loving’.at hot pants, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 243: Cock, cunt and the grave. That’s about it—innit?at innit!, excl.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 18: A drop of icy champagne slid off Helen’s glass [...] down between her breasts, down, down, down. . . . ‘JEE-rusalem!’ she gasped.at Jerusalem!, excl.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 139: ‘That’s nice, honey. I like to hear that. Knock me a kiss’.at knock, v.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 65: ‘About a month ago I hit a long one for almost a hundred’.at long one, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 155: ‘You know what they really want? A wee bit of the old narsty [sic]’.at nasty, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 149: ‘[You told me] when you departed for the orifice in the morning’.at orifice, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 195: [S]he reached around and very slowly, very softly, very gently, grasped his piccolo.at piccolo, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 85: ‘A rabbit,’ she said softly. ‘A goddamned rabbit. Fast? An Olympic champ. And the grunts!’.at rabbit, n.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 130: Fred wanted to sleep in the raw, but I wouldn’t let him.at raw, adj.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 138: ‘I am just a poor, uneducated Ohio schlumph, and I cannot rightly understand’.at schloomp, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 148: ‘A chemmy?’ ‘A chemise. That’s what women wore in those days. It’s like a bra and slip and panties all in one’.at shimmy, n.1
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 29: Peggy giggled. ‘Did he suck your toes again?’ [...] ‘My God, did I tell you about that? Pass [...] Yes, he’s a shrimper’.at shrimper, n.
1971 L. Sanders Pleasures of Helen 103: ‘I’m going to have a slam,’ she announced. [...] She had a bottle of scotch and brought it out.at slam, n.1