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The Voice of the City choose

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[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Shocks of Doom’ in Voice of the City (1915) 98: I’m sorry to say that I’m all in, financially.
at all in, adj.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Voice of the City’ in Voice of the City (1915) 6: Billy, you’ve lived in New York a long time – what kind of a song-and-dance does this old town give you?
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘From Each According to his Ability’ in Voice of the City (1915) 223: ‘Double the ante!’ cried the criticised one, greedily. ‘Give me more of it.’.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Rathskeller & the Rose’ in Voice of the City (1915) 179: Member of the famous ‘Dickey-bird’ octette.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘A Philistine in Bohemia’ in Voice of the City (1915) 213: He’s the same thricks of spakin’ and blarneyin’ wid his hands.
at blarney, v.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Clarion Call’ Voice of the City (1915) 196: You’ve had this murder case worked over by your staff of bright young blockheads.
at blockhead, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Rathskeller and the Rose’ in Voice of the City (1915) 179: She had ascended by the legitimate and delectable steps of ‘broiler,’ member of the famous ‘Dickey-bird’ octette, [...] to the part of the maid ‘Toinette’.
at broiler, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Shocks of Doom’ in Voice of the City (1915) 101: I should think a man put on the bum from a good job just in one day would be tearing his hair.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Clarion Call’ in Voice of the City (1915) 192: Here is where I go ‘busted’.
at go bust (v.) under bust, adj.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Complete Life of John Hopkins’ in Voice of the City (1915) 14: Hopkins [...] entered and called genially for his ‘bunch of spinach, car-fare grade’.
at cabbage, n.2
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Clarion Call’ in Voice of the City (1915) 191: You’ve called the turn.
at call the turn (v.) under call, v.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Easter of the Soul’ in Voice of the City (1915) 154: The onlookers unselfishly gave the warning cry of ‘Cheese it – the cop!’.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Dougherty’s Eye-Opener’ in Voice of the City (1915) 35: You can have swell chuck tonight if you want it.
at chuck, n.3
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Fool-Killer’ in Voice of the City (1915) 167: Why can’t you go back South and kill Congressmen and clay-eaters and let us alone?
at clay-eater (n.) under clay, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Memento’ in Voice of the City (1915) 234: There was a brief clinch, two simultaneous labial dabs.
at clinch, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Defeat of the City’ in Voice of the City (1915) 92: He played the yokel, the humorous clodhopper.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Shocks of Doom’ in Voice of the City (1915) 101: ‘You take it cool,’ said Ide, ‘if you’ve told it to me straight.’.
at take it cool (v.) under cool, adv.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Shocks of Doom’ in Voice of the City (1915) 98: I didn’t know but what he was a fly cop.
at fly cop, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘From Each According to his Ability’ Voice of the City (1915) 228: What was that cow-puncher’s name?
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Memento’ in Voice of the City (1915) 243: You’re damn right.
at damn, adv.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Nemesis and the Candy Man’ in Voice of the City (1915) 120: Yer’d make a dandy magazine cover.
at dandy, adj.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Squaring the Circle’ Voice of the City (1915) 131: Howdy, Cal! I’m durned glad to see ye.
at darned, adv.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Clarion Call’ in Voice of the City (1915) 191: After a job I can crook elbows with my old friend Barney with a clear conscience.
at crook the elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘From Each According to his Ability’ in Voice of the City (1915) 226: He depicted the ravages of ‘redeye’ in a border town.
at red-eye, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘One Thousand Dollars’ Voice of the City (1915) 75: If it had been ten thousand a fellow might wind up with a lot of fireworks and do himself credit.
at fireworks, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Rathskeller and the Rose’ in Voice of the City (1915) 179: She is in the heyday of flattery, fame and fizz.
at fizz, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Shocks of Doom’ in Voice of the City (1915) 97: ‘I used to be a high-flyer myself – some years ago. What knocked you out of the game?’ ‘I, oh, I lost my job,’ said Vallance.
at high-flyer, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘Transients in Arcadia’ in Voice of the City (1915) 170: By Gad, sah!
at gad, n.1
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Harbinger’ Voice of the City (1915) 56: I hadn’d any idea the old girl was soft any more under the foolish rib.
at old gal, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ ‘The Clarion Call’ Voice of the City (1915) 195: Kind of rattles you, doesn’t it, to have the mysterious villain call up [...] and tell you what a helpless old gas-bag you are?
at gasbag, n.
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