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Laughing to Keep from Crying 61: I spit in a bozo’s eye yesterday and killed him stone dead! I spit bullets.at bozo, n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 61: I spit in a bozo’s eye yesterday and killed him stone dead! I spit bullets. Laughing to Keep from Crying 63: Autumn in Reno! Dog-bite my onions! Stacks of shining silver dollars on the tables [...] Must be all the cartwheels in the world in Reno.at cartwheel, n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 12: Gimme one white woman [...] and you can take all those Chinee gals over here.at Chinee, adj.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 115: Let’s clean out the spicks.at clean out, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 115: Take your eyes off that white woman, coon.at coon, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 13: ‘Why you black bastard!’ quavered the old white man. ‘You white cracker!’ trembled the elderly Negro.at cracker, n.3
Laughing to Keep from Crying 177: He thought about their forthcoming appearance in a Washington theater that wasn’t even Jim Crow – but barred Negroes altogether.at Jim Crow, adj.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 63: Autumn in Reno! Dog-bite my onions! Stacks of shining silver dollars on the tables.at dog bite ’em! (excl.) under dog, n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 186: Well, I’ll be dogged.at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 10: Well, I ain’t from no down home [...] I’m from the North.at down-home, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 62: ‘Let’s get on down this road, boy.’ [...] ‘Dust my broom, pal.’.at dust one’s broom (v.) under dust, v.2
Laughing to Keep from Crying 61: Lemme tell you ’bout the last duster that crossed my path. He were an Al Capone – machine gun and all – and I just mowed him down with my little thirty-two on a forty-four frame.at duster, n.5
Laughing to Keep from Crying 40: ‘A natural-born eastman,’ cried a tan-skin lady with a diamond wrist-watch. ‘He can have anything I got.’.at Eastman, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 52: What’s your name, Miss Fine Brown Frame?at fine brown frame (n.) under fine, adj.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 52: What’s your name, Miss Fine Brown Frame?at frame, n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 65: Let’s haul it to the club.at haul oneself (v.) under haul, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 72: Take your old hinkty heifer out o’ here where she belong.at heifer, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 68: She’s got a high nose.at high nose, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 75: ‘She’s too respectable.’ ‘A hinkty hussy!’.at hincty, adj.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 61: I’m a bad jigaboo, son.at jigaboo, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 199: His green-black coat jim-swinging to his knees.at jimswinger, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 29: ‘We can’t use that M.C. outfit you got on,’ he said, talking about the tux.at M.C., n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 42: Sonny answered the racketeers. ‘We’re paying off, ain’t we – you and the police, both? So what’s wrong?’.at pay off, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 63: Autumn in Reno! Dog-bite my onions! Stacks of shining silver dollars on the tables.at onion, n.1
Laughing to Keep from Crying 135: I gave her the polite raspberries – after I shut the door.at raspberries!, excl.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 161: He spoke the English of the wharf rats.at wharf-rat, n.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 60: The rod-riders got off nowhere near the station.at ride the rods (v.) under ride, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 60: The latter, or cushion riders, were sometimes inclined to turn flat noses high at those who rode the rods.at ride the cushions (v.) under ride, v.
Laughing to Keep from Crying 53: ‘Out here on the Coast the Chinaman’s got everything sewed up.’ ‘Tight as Dick’s hatband.’.at tight as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under tight, adj.
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