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USA Confidential 70: Small manufacturers are forced to operate under strict union conditions, carrying heavy handicaps as against the big mucky-mucks who made deals.at muck-a-muck, n.
USA Confidential 70: Small manufacturers are forced to operate under strict union conditions, carrying heavy handicaps as against the big mucky-mucks who made deals. USA Confidential 91: [They] decided to pull a steal and seal their control of City Hall.at pull a..., v.
USA Confidential 280: A fat old fairy in a Japanese kimono makes like a geisha girl.at make like (a)..., v.
USA Confidential 163: She still occasionally turns a trick for an old friend.at turn a trick, v.2
USA Confidential 168: The town’s ace madame attends every council meeting.at ace, adj.
USA Confidential 109: Their regular customers, as well as bellboys and cab-drivers who are their agents, know the numbers, and call whenever there is action.at action, n.
USA Confidential 133: You can’t walk three blocks in any direction without running into another bums’ bedbug row.at bedbug alley, n.
USA Confidential 117: Negroes pour in on every train and bus. [...] Olson Highway, fittingly named after a former left-wing Governor, is almost completely black and tan.at black and tan, adj.
USA Confidential 136: The black-and-tan Cotton Club runs all night, for white girls with Negro men.at black and tan club, n.
USA Confidential 165: One reason for the present sorry plight of the movies is that some who manufacture them have contempt for the bread-and-butter customers who make it all possible at the box-office.at bread-and-butter, adj.
USA Confidential 261: The machines come from Chicago, which also supplies financing and strong-arm men.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
USA Confidential 90: The force, under Governor Dever, is so venal that after the city officials voted them a raise the cops had to kick back to their captains.at kick back, v.1
USA Confidential 142: They won’t ask questions if you check into one of the following hostelries with a female bag your only baggage.at bag, n.1
USA Confidential 127: B. Kaufman, of the Sellman Hotel, is the pooh-bah of the cafes and restaurants. [Ibid.] 132: He was and is the poobah.at pooh-bah, n.
USA Confidential 254: Virginia was served with much ballyhoo in September, but was saved six months to ‘hypo’ the last act.at ballyhoo, n.
USA Confidential xi: The whole ballyhooed binge of publicity and melodrama laughable. [Ibid.] 137: The loudest ballyhooers and the most insufferable snobs are the carpetbaggers.at ballyhoo, v.
USA Confidential 162: Klieg lights and stationary sound trucks in the street act as barkers to pull in the derelicts and trailer tourists.at barker, n.1
USA Confidential 141: San Francisco—Bridgeport on the Golden Gate. Duty too often betrays sentiment. We love the Bay City.at Bay City, n.
USA Confidential 41: Girls combine business with pleasure, for a side-line income above and beyond their beanery earnings.at beanery, adj.
USA Confidential 156: It runs after hours when there is no big beef.at beef, n.2
USA Confidential 246: The excursion boat Admiral is popular for meeting girls, boys, and in-betweens.at in-between, n.1
USA Confidential 61: They sent colonizers down to the deep South, loaded with big talk and money for bus-fares.at big talk, n.
USA Confidential 207: She discreetly supplies girls for big boys like bankers, industrialists and rich gangsters.at big boy, n.
USA Confidential 73: Sherman’s store is patronized by all the expensive Havana-lovers among the big-shot gangsters.at big-shot, adj.
USA Confidential 144: Opium is down to $5 a bindle.at bindle, n.
USA Confidential 145: [They] are forced into line through threats against their relatives in the old country. They are bled white in shakedowns.at bleed white (v.) under bleed, v.1
USA Confidential 145: The Chinese tong set-up is used by the Mafia to transmit narcotics and other contraband; such things as laundry bales, cases of Chinese vegetables and packages of tea are blinds.at blind, n.1
USA Confidential 37: The brats make swell blinds.at blind, n.1
USA Confidential 127: Started in 1937 primarily as a blind pig and turned into a late spot after the repeal of the state’s tough liquor law.at blind pig, n.
USA Confidential 61: Their neighborhoods are block-busted by Negroes.at blockbust, v.
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