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‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 65: When he’s got a little age an’ wisdom an’ nerve he turns his first neat one. [Ibid.] 162: ‘Is there anything on you?’ asked the Reporter. ‘Clean as a sucker,’ said the Kid. ‘I haven’t turned a trick for a week.’. ‘It Wasn’t Honest, But It Was Sweet’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 224: His ace in the hole is your shame at coming to him. ‘Omaha Slim’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 117: Your dope is all aces. ‘It Wasn’t Honest, But It Was Sweet’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 224: Folks never come to him [loan shark] unless they are flat against the rough bricks. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 176: You what used to trim smart-Alec get-rich-quick guys an’ take the dicks what come after you. You’ve flopped a long way. ‘If a Party Meet a Party’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 97: He waits around till I get off and tails me on that car, and takes a seat acrost from me and gives me the all-over like he was gonna buy me or something. ‘Omaha Slim’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 117: Votin’ don’ do no good. That’s peanut stuff—retail pennyante. ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 32: If they ever found him in this honeycomb of vice, sin, and crime, they would put him away just on general principles. ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 67: The Chief’s pet front-office sleuths slipped over to Jake’s and took on ballast. ‘The Gangster’s Elegy’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 249: You penny-ante Castle Garden banana peddler. ‘Omaha Slim’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 124: His residence, club, and office, the dime flop over the barrel-house. ‘The Septagon’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 23: I don’t know where you get that stuff to bawl me out like that. ‘Ten Dollars’ Worth’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 234: Night after night he held forth in the beanery with his tales of long ago. ‘If a Party Meet a Party’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 98: ‘You’re a bear,’ she said with feeling. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 159: So I beats aroun’ the corner, picks out the second house to my right, tries the door and it opens. ‘If a Party Meet a Party’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 98: If I ever ketch you annoyin’ this here young lady again or mashin’ on my beat I’ll bust your nut and I’ll run you in. ‘Omaha Slim’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 117: ‘Are you wit’ me?’ ‘Betcher life.’. ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 55: With a billy an’ a gun an’ a pair o’ bracelets youse see to it that shoe clerks don’ spit on the sidewalks. ‘The Imp of the Night’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 132: He was an inquisitive night owl, this bird. He wrote stories for a newspaper. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 174: There he was, a sidewalk curbstone faker, peddling with droning voice two-bit swindles to the Christmas crowds. ‘‘Taxi, Mister!’’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 139: He will have the concentrated shady knowledge of all the bloods, pikers, come-ons, roisterers, gamblers, cheaters, beaux, rich men’s sons, and poor men’s daughters. ‘Pics’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 255: We have made him somebody, and he has turned out a bloomer because he cannot live up to our specifications. ‘Omaha Slim’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 113: Nobody knows how he’s agonna vote an’ nobody much gives a blow. ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 61: Just blew down to see the boys off. in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 214: He had married me – yes. But it had blown blue. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 154: They ain’ nothin’ to keep me aroun’ home. I blows for Canada—that’s where my monicker come from. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 155: While he was out his mother died, an’ he told me it was a swell blow-off, wit’ a church an’ weepin’ neighbours an’ everything. Beef, Iron and Wine (2008) 272: Well, that’s the blow-off. Here’s curtains for you, Gene the Greek. ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 157: Breathing the dirty air of his native metropolis again, was glad to be home—glad to be home, bo. ‘The Gangster’s Elegy’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 249: He’s boilin’, an’ that Greek is got a nasty disposition when he’s that way.