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The Good of the Wicked choose

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[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 13: And as to the piano in the back room? [...] I put in that agony-box that they could have a little music or singing with their glass o beer.
at agony box (n.) under agony, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 25: He took care that his guests were properly attended by the specially engaged French waiters, and just as careful that the guests should commit no ‘bad breaks’ in the presence of the servitors.
at bad break (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 21: I guess, most of you people ain’t had what you may call a regular Christmas dinner in some time. [...] The whole thing is fixed up just the same as up in Delmonico’s or any o’ them places, and I hope you won’t tackle it the same as if it was a beefstew in Cheap John’s.
at cheap john, n.1
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 14: Levitt, surprising ‘Tippy’ Mason in the act of ‘lifting a super’ [...] subjected the light-fingered gent to a ‘deal,’ which kept him in the hospital for months.
at deal, n.1
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Italian’ Joe, ‘Dutch’ Oscar, and ‘Sheeney’ Ike, a cosmopolitan trio of shoe-string gamblers.
at Dutch, n.1
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 12: If people in our neighborhood had more money to spend, and if there was as many easies as up town, there would be the same electric lights and other fixings that can hide a whole lot on the outside.
at easy, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 28: I went to work and got some o’ the fizzy-wizzy [...] You can all look at the stamp on the cork and see that it’s genooine French shampain.
at fizzy, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Second-story’ Connors and ‘Flim-flam’ Myers, two gentlemen depending on their wits for support.
at flim-flam, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 50: Say, Polly, if I sees that cove putting up his snoot to them ruby kissers o’ yourn again I’ll soak him in the slats.
at kisser, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 16: Therefore it was determined to celebrate [...] ‘Give them the finest “lay-out” ever, and in the back room!’ [Ibid.] 21: I guess, most o you people ain t had what you may call a regular Christmas dinner in some time. Anyway, I don t think you ever had anything like this lay out in your lives [...] and I hope you won t tackle it the same as if it was a beefstew in Cheap John’s.
at layout, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 14: Levitt, surprising ‘Tippy’ Mason in the act of ‘lifting a super’ [...] subjected the light-fingered gent to a ‘deal,’ which kept him in the hospital for months.
at light-fingered gentry (n.) under light, adj.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Plug’ Duffy, a dimly glittering star of the fistic firmament.
at plug, n.1
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 23: ‘Ah, what’d you know about it?’ growled the plug-ugly. [...] ‘If them referees wasn’t crooked, I’d been a champeen long ago.’.
at plug-ugly, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 29: ‘Reb’ Carlisle was reciting the battle of Winchester in installments.
at Reb, n.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Second-story’ Connors and ‘Flim-flam’ Myers, two gentlemen depending on their wits for support.
at second-storey job (n.) under second, adj.
[US] O. Kildare Good of the Wicked 17: ‘Italian’ Joe, ‘Dutch’ Oscar, and ‘Sheeney’ Ike, a cosmopolitan trio of shoe-string gamblers.
at sheeny, n.
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