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Hope of Heaven 33: I flunked out. I don’t know. I got so I didn’t give a God damn.at give a damn, v.
Hope of Heaven 33: I flunked out. I don’t know. I got so I didn’t give a God damn. Hope of Heaven 36: [W]hen I was a kid I used to be able to sign my old man’s name to excuses when I bagged school.at bag, v.
Hope of Heaven 88: Henderson gave Peggy fifty dollars. ‘Go out and buy yourself a slam-bang evening gown’.at slam-bang, adj.
Hope of Heaven 46: Some of the nitwits that did make it, cats! They couldn’t carry his books, this fellow. [...] Cats! I dunno’.at cats!, excl.
Hope of Heaven 63: ‘I think I’ll go right out and paddle those little round cheeks of yours, Miss Bronson’.at cheeks, n.1
Hope of Heaven 129: ‘I want to stay in your nice new house [...] I’d like to christen every room in the house’.at christen, v.
Hope of Heaven 158: [S]she called to Keith to [...] get to school, and he called back to her that he was taking a couple of cuts to go down to [...] the dentist.at cut, n.1
Hope of Heaven 100: ‘I don’t think she likes me,’ I said. [...] ‘She’s a little drunkie,’ said Miller.at drunkie, adj.
Hope of Heaven 98: I immediately recognized the girl with him, and so would have at least half the men in the room. She was one of the girls; a free-lance.at freelance, n.
Hope of Heaven 131: He picked up the menu and read it item by item, and then tossed it in front of him like a disgusted cardplayer. ‘Frig dat,’ he said.at frig, v.
Hope of Heaven 74: It was rather hard to believe that he had been quite as gay in college as he said he had been. No man earning the salary of a superintendent of maintenance of way could have afforded such a son.at gay, adj.
Hope of Heaven 25: It was a very boring meal, because his attitude seemed to say: ‘All right, get it up. [...] What have you got to say for yourself?’.at get it up, v.
Hope of Heaven 46: All I had to do was get up twenty dollars a plate.at get it up, v.
Hope of Heaven 88: The first party was the Saturday night after Henderson began his visit. ‘Tonight’s my night to howl,’ he announced.at howl, v.
Hope of Heaven 110: ‘Is she in love with you?’ ‘She offered to give up hustling for me’.at hustling, n.
Hope of Heaven 33: [T]his kid I was traveling around with [...] I’d go over and pick her up and [...] I’d give her a jump in the car.at give someone a jump (v.) under jump, n.
Hope of Heaven 10: ‘Are you in the movies, Miss Henderson?’ ‘Oh, no. I work in a bookstore.’ ‘Oh, do you? Where?’ ‘On Wilshire Boulevard.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘He’s moving right in,’ I said.at move, v.
Hope of Heaven 135: ‘All right, pallie, you don’t have to put salt in the wound’.at pally, n.1
Hope of Heaven 137: ‘We can go to the Bamboo Room and refresh your memory [...] I’ll buy you a powder’.at powder, n.1
Hope of Heaven 97: John, the headwaiter [...] gave us a table in the second row from ringside.at ringside, adv.
Hope of Heaven 108: ‘You’ve never been to sea, you don’t belong to any union, and I wouldn’t advise you to do any scabbing out here’.at scab, v.
Hope of Heaven 81: Huey [Long] knew as well as anyone else that the every-man-a-king stuff was so much sheep-dip.at sheep dip (n.) under sheep, n.
Hope of Heaven 33: I used to pick up a couple bucks shilling at Jimmy’s poolroom.at shill, v.
Hope of Heaven 61: [M]y name got me on a lot of Catholic sucker lists.at sucker list (n.) under sucker, n.1
Hope of Heaven 33: [T]his kid I was traveling around with [...] I’d go over and pick her up and [...] I’d give her a jump in the car.at travel with (v.) under travel, v.
Hope of Heaven 138: ‘[T]hey go and live in Ohio or someplace and veil up and live respectable lives for fifteen years’.at veil up, v.
Hope of Heaven 145: ‘There’s a drunken man,’ I said. ‘Where, sir?’ he said. ‘Here. Me,’ I said. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Oh yeah? You wanna make sumpn of it?’.at want to make something of it? under want, v.
Hope of Heaven 145: We left, both saying woo-woo quietly. [...] ‘Woo-woo. I drank that fast too champagne,’ said Peggy. ‘Woo-woo’ .at woo-woo, n.
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