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Job 252: ‘I tell you they make a whole lot more coin than a lot of these society-column guys, even if they don’t throw on the agony’.at agony, n.
Job 252: ‘I tell you they make a whole lot more coin than a lot of these society-column guys, even if they don’t throw on the agony’. Job 266: ‘Lot of hot-air females telling me what I can do and what I can’t do’.at hot air, n.
Job 242: He denounced the new poster, the new top for the talcum-powder container, the arrangement of the files, and the whispering in the amen corner of veteran stenographers.at amen corner (n.) under amen, n.
Job 175: With no men about to intimidate them—or to attract them—they made a solid phalanx of bland, satisfied femininity, and Una felt more barred out than in an office. She longed for a man.at bar, v.1
Job 54: ‘Must be true, though; it’s going to appear in the Gazette, and that’s the motor-dealer’s bible’.at bible, n.
Job 201: ‘[T]hanks to you, little sister, looks like I’ll have a bigger time than a high-line poker party’.at big, adj.
Job 253: [He] told it as a good joke that he ‘blew himself’ so extensively on their parties.at blow, v.2
Job 151: ‘[L]eaving me sitting there with the waiter laughing his boob head off at me’.at boob, adj.
Job 204: ‘I’m going to cut-out—all this boozing and stuff’.at boozing, n.
Job 107: She stared, hypnotized, as, for the last time, Walter went bouncing out of the office.at bounce, v.1
Job 143: He would bounce in [...] when the others were being decorous and dull [...] and yelp: ‘How do we all find our seskpadalian selves this bright and balmy evenin’?’.at bounce in (v.) under bounce, v.1
Job 246: ‘Well, little old trip [sic] made consid’able hole in my wad. I’m clean busted. Down to one hundred bucks in the bank.’.at clean broke (adj.) under clean, adv.
Job 162: [S]he could never get herself to keep up the earnest clowning of bedroom calisthenics.at clown (around) (v.) under clown, v.
Job 172: ‘I’d really like to have you come in, because you look as though you were on, even if you are rather meek and kitteny’.at come in (v.) under come, v.1
Job 257: She had reason to believe her husband was damaged goods. She crept to an old family doctor and had a fainting joy to find that she had escaped contamination.at damaged goods under damaged, adj.
Job 59: [N]ot to write anything in particular; not to express any definite thought, but to be literary, to be Bohemian, to dance with slim young authoresses of easy morals, and be jolly dogs and free souls.at jolly dog, n.
Job 197: ‘I bet I knock down more good, big, round, iron men every week than nine tenths of these high-brow fiddlers’.at knock down, v.
Job 282: [H]e got drunk, and wept into his sherbet that he was a drag on her.at drag, n.1
Job 34: ‘Nope; it’s just as bad as parties at Panama. Never really enjoyed ’em. I’m out of it. I’ll stick to my work. Oh, drat it!’ [ibid.] 129: ‘Drat that bird [...] every time I try to take a nap he just tries to wake me up’.at drat, v.
Job 35: ‘They’ll keep their gum and a looking-glass in the upper right-hand drawer of their typewriter desks, and the old man will call them down eleventy times a day’.at eleventy-eleven, n.
Job 196: ‘Do you go to concerts, symphonies, and so on, much?’ Una next catechized. ‘Well, no; that’s where I fall down’.at fall down (on) (v.) under fall, v.1
Job 30: ‘[Y]ou can’t expect them to give away all their profits to please these walking delegates or a Cape Cod farmer like Todd!’.at farmer, n.2
Job 30: They seemed alternately third-rate stenographers, and very haughty urbanites who knew all about ‘fellows,’ and ‘shows’ and ‘glad rags’ .at fellow, n.
Job 196: ‘Own up. Don’t you get more fun out of hearing Raymond Hitchcock sing [...] ’Fess up, now; don’t you get more downright amusement?’.at fess, v.
Job 172: ‘Now let me warn you first off, that I may be diverting at times, but I’m no good’.at first off under first, adj.
Job 33: [T]hey waited for the coming of her Tristan, her chevalier, the flat-footed J.J. Todd.at flat-footed, adj.4
Job 246: ‘Why, I thought you were several thousand ahead!’ ‘Oh—oh! I lost most of that in a little flyer on stocks’.at flyer, n.2
Job 58: ‘Some time you women folks will come into your own with both feet’.at get there with both feet (v.) under foot, n.
Job 82: ‘Why, I don’t know what you mean.’ ‘Oh no, like fun you don’t—him rubbering at you all day and pussy-footing around’.at like fun!, excl.
Job 143: ‘How does your perspegacity discipulate, Herby? What’s the good word, Miss Golden?’.at what’s the good word?, phr.
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