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Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories choose

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[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 16: I’m not hurt for Chrissake, lea’ me alone.
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 14: In Santa Fe there’d been too much cotton-pickin’ sunshine.
at cotton-picking, adj.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 12: It was like that quick and sensuous falling into sleep on a night when he’d stolen one of the magic pheenies.
at phennie, n.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 21: He wanted desperately to get away from it, perhaps into a pheeny sleep.
at phennie, n.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 10: She could give up nursing and sit on her fat tail for life.
at tail, n.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 61: You make a girl feel like about thirty cents. Honestly!
at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 60: Not very damn many, honey, excuse my French.
at excuse my French under French, n.
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 48: What’d he think his tacky little drugstore was, the Mocombo night club?
at tacky, adj.1
[US] J.L. Herlihy ‘Pretty on the Bus at Night-time’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 112: A real whammy comes along, a pet goldfish dies in the bowl, or somebody forgets to smile.
at whammy, n.
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