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‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 182: We want our ads. in the biggest city dailies, top of column, next to editorials.at ad, n.1
‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 182: We want our ads. in the biggest city dailies, top of column, next to editorials. ‘The Ethics of Pig’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 235: I got busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash.at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
‘The Man Higher Up’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 154: He couldn’t have worked a scheme to beat a little girl out of a penny slate-pencil.at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
‘A Summer Masquerade’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 90: How is it that you seem to be biting your thumb at good luck?at bite one’s/the thumb at (v.) under bite, v.
‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 191: Lady, will you please stop bleating. Your money’s waiting for you.at bleat, v.
‘The Hand that Riles the World’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 62: I will [...] guarantee you impunity in boot-legging whiskey for twelve months.at bootleg, v.
‘The Exact Science of Matrimony’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 73: Drinking some dyspepsia cure [...] instead of the liniment that he always got boozed up on.at boozed, adj.
‘Modern Rural Sports’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 41: It looks incredulous to me that he could have inoculated himself against all the preordained systems of bucolic bunco.at bunco, n.
‘Modern Rural Sports’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 37: The little devices I had in my pocket for buncoing the pushed-back brows seemed [...] hopeless.at bunco, v.
‘Innocents of Broadway’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 117: He has nominated you custodian of his bundle in the sappy insouciance of his urban indiscrimination.at bundle, n.1
‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 164: No man [...] need be ashamed of putting the skibunk on a loan corporation for even so small a sum as ten dollars.at put the skibunk on (v.) under ski-bunk, n.
‘Conscience in Art’ in Gentle Grafter (2006) 47: I saw a memorandum of expenses for a ten days’ trip to Bunkum Town made by a Pittsburg man.at bunkum town, n.
‘Hostages to Momus’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 203: We [...] lighted up two of the landlord’s flor de upas perfectos.at flor de cabbagio, n.
‘The Ethics of Pig’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 228: Rufe was to be the capper. I gave him a roll of phony currency to bet with and kept a bunch of it in a special pocket to pay his winnings out of.at capper, n.1
‘Hostages to Momus’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 202: I’d want ham and eggs, or rabbit stew, anyhow, for a chaser.at chaser, n.1
‘A Tempered Wind’ Gentle Grafter (1915) 181: I chip in that much brain work free.at chip in, v.
‘The Ethics of Pig’ Gentle Grafter (1915) 229: Would you mind choking off that kid of yours so that honest people can get their rest?at choke off, v.
‘A Tempered Wind’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 181: We ought to clean up $60,000.at clean up, v.
‘Hostages to Momus’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 206: That colonel [...] cuts more ice when he goes to the post-office than Roosevelt does when he cleans ’em out.at cut ice (with), v.
‘A Summer Masquerade’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 95: The landlord [...] got out a demijohn of North Carolina real mountain dew.at mountain dew, n.
‘Conscience in Art’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 133: The pawnbroker [...] thinks it was soaked by some Arabs or Turks or some foreign dubs.at dub, n.5
‘Modern Rural Sports’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 38: The pristine Hubbard squasherino of the cave-dwelling period.at -erino, sfx
‘The Ethics of Pig’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 229: You flimflammed in your part of the work to-night and put the game on crutches.at flim-flam, v.
‘The Chair of Philanthromathematics’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 46: That was when the philanthropy idea struck me. I suppose every grafter gets it sometime.at grafter, n.1
‘Innocents of Broadway’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 113: Me and Andy never cared much to do business in New York. It was too much like pothunting.at pot-hunter, n.2
‘The Man Higher Up’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 141: Out of his pocket drops a fine, nine-inch burglar’s steel jimmy.at jimmy, n.2
‘Hostages to Momus’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 201: The celebrated food that enabled every Johnny Reb to lick one and two-thirds Yankees for nearly four years at a stretch.at Johnny Reb (n.) under johnny-, pfx
‘Conscience in Art’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 131: What good is the art junk to us?at junk, n.1
‘The Man Higher Up’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 148: Eat, drink and be leary.at leery, adj.
‘The Ethics of Pig’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 236: Hey, Mac [...] Nothing wrong with the world-wide this morning, is there?at Mac, n.1
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