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Vanity Row 232: ‘All right. All right.’ Lynch spoke impatiently. ‘Let’s not get into ring-around-the-rosie’.at ring around the rosy, n.
Vanity Row 232: ‘All right. All right.’ Lynch spoke impatiently. ‘Let’s not get into ring-around-the-rosie’. Vanity Row 163: ‘[F]atassed deadheads who think it [i.e. political power] will last forever without their turning a hand’.at fat-ass, adj.
Vanity Row 153: ‘First I had a row with Ruth. She was standing right beside me and heard every word that was said. Oh, did she do a burn!’.at do a burn (v.) under burn, n.1
Vanity Row 96: ‘Come on, Tarawa. Let’s burn it up.’ They [...] jumped into Wesson’s car and were off with a loud banging in a dense cloud of oil-smoke.at burn (up), v.
Vanity Row 130: ‘So it’s robbery. You covering me, Hargis?’ ‘Sure,’ said Roy, then he stood up. [...] ‘ Okay, Hargis. Just so I’m covered.’ ‘You’re covered’.at covered, adj.
Vanity Row 80: ‘He plays a nice piano,’ said Wesson. ‘Soothes me no end when my dobber’s down’.at dauber, n.
Vanity Row 23: Roy glanced at Merle Bayliss then lowered his eyes. He had heard her referred to as Miss America of 1902—a dirty dig. Actually she was about forty.at dig, n.1
Vanity Row 28: ‘Chad, you understand I’ve got to put on quite a show. Not only for the newspapers. But also for Downtown’.at downtown, n.
Vanity Row 225: ‘All right—so she’s a beauty. But they all got the same equipment— [...] and they all end up being a bore’.at equipment, n.
Vanity Row 130: ‘You took her car, too?’ ‘Sure. Mr. Hobart’s nephew’s got it. We gave her the old stripperoo. We even took all her evening dresses. The boys found thirty-five hundred dollars in cash behind a picture. I let ‘em keep it’.at -eroo, sfx
Vanity Row 160: ‘Okay, fat,’ said Roy. Now I apologize’.at fat, n.
Vanity Row 46: ‘Hargis, I guess I don’t have to tell you I’m no fink [...] I did ninety days once just because I wouldn’t help the boys out’.at fink, n.
Vanity Row 4: Some of the cops liked to needle him just to see him flare up.at flare up, v.
Vanity Row 217: ‘You like a little fun tonight, mister? [...] Two new joints just opened on North Baxter. New girls [...] Hollywood poontang’.at girl, n.1
Vanity Row 216: ‘This town’s a gambling gold mine, always has been. [...] The big outside boys would just love to gobble it’.at gobble, v.1
Vanity Row 241: Roy, of all people! The wise boy; the guy with the wonderful system.at wise guy, n.
Vanity Row 212: ‘So far the evidence won’t stand up in court. It depends too much on the word of a stinking rat by the name of Whitey Vickers. A defense lawyer would make hash out of him’.at make hash out of (v.) under hash, n.1
Vanity Row 17: ‘I live to bejesus and gone from the Savoy’.at to hell and gone under hell, n.
Vanity Row 204: ‘Helene finally came to, then she started to scream and raise the devil, and finally chased the big kid to hell out of the house’.at raise hell (v.) under hell, n.
Vanity Row 49: ‘I mean, she’d be worrying how to knock me off. Or trying to get me het up all the time so’s I’d pop’ [ibid.] 52: ‘He just thought she’d be good for the place. And she was. I never saw so many heated up guys’.at het up, adj.
Vanity Row 170: ‘The best way to get money is to work for it. Nobody can throw it up to you then, and try to make a slave out of you’.at throw it up to someone (v.) under throw it, v.
Vanity Row 16: [a female speaker] ‘Pull down your dress, will you, for God’s sake?’ cried Roy. ‘You want to get us killed?’ ‘I jogged him when I came over, I think,’ said Kit. ‘You sure did. Some jog, eh, Boley?’ .at jog, v.
Vanity Row 217: ‘Where’s Emmett?’ ‘Don’t know. Didn’t come in this morning. Didn’t call either.’ ‘That’s damn funny. Old Johnny-on-the-job. Maybe the poor slob’s sick’.at johnny-on-the-spot, n.
Vanity Row 54: ‘She belted him, broke a tray full of dishes—knocked him out . . .’ ‘No kidding?’ said Roy. ‘Knocked him colder than Kelsey’s’.at cold as Kelsey’s nuts (adj.) under Kelsey’s nuts, n.
Vanity Row 43: ‘I won’t get falling down on champagne. Don’t worry. I’m very ladylike on champagne. On martinis, I promise you nothing’.at knee-walking (adj.) under knee, n.
Vanity Row 19: ‘He’s the kind who don’t know straight up. So he’s the Chief. So a guy’s got to have friends—pull’.at not know straight up (v.) under not know..., v.
Vanity Row 50: ‘Hargis, strictly speaking, Tootsie knows from nothing’.at know (nothing) from nothing (v.) under know, v.
Vanity Row 105: ‘A picture of the girl was in the glove-compartment. It was autographed to: Frank, my darling daddy.’ ‘“Darling daddy,”’ Roy mused. ‘It’s a funny thing how many darling daddies catch lead’.at catch lead (v.) under lead, n.
Vanity Row 35: ‘Wait a minute. Did this leak, Mike?’ ‘To the newspapers? The kid as witness, you mean? No.’ ‘All right. Let it stay that way’ .at leak, v.
Vanity Row 54: ‘We got a few facts. But we’re still out in leftfield. Why would she kill him?’.at leftfield, n.
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