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Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 172: I asked him how he bamboozled his customers.at bamboozle, v.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 172: I asked him how he bamboozled his customers. Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 270: Their liberty was worth more to these ‘bench warmers’ than all confinement could offer them.at bench-warmer (n.) under bench, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 145: We visited the knowledge factory.at knowledge box, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 34: Clinton Prison attempted to solve this problem by assembling all the prison ‘bugs’ in one company.at bug, n.4
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 182: He is an expert ‘can-opener’ known to police heads of every large city.at can opener, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 277: Don’t click up too easily with fellows you don’t know.at click up (v.) under click, n.2
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 172: He had been a forger, a ‘con’ merchant of bygone days.at con-merchant (n.) under con, n.1
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 304: He was being escorted to the ‘dance-hall,’ the prison term for the pre-execution chamber.at dancehall (n.) under dance, n.1
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 222: I suddenly thought of a ‘darkey’ story. just a little off-colour.at darkie, adj.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 269: Our head nurse was a ‘dope’ doctor.at dope, adj.1
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 221: I told a story about the necessity for mutual understanding. It was a dud, went flat – no laughs.at dud, n.2
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 244: He is going home soon [...] So many days and a ‘get up’.at get-up, n.3
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 172: He has sold gold bricks and ‘green goods’.at green goods, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 323: When he was in the section where the other men were confined, he would be the ‘fall guy’ or ‘lobby gob’ for them.at lobby-gow, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 75: My visit then was to check up the records of the prison to determine how many of our Reformatory ‘graduates’ had filtered into the big prison.at graduate, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 322: Did you notice how busy those newspaper men got every time I made a hit?at hit, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 14: This section, referred to as the ‘dance hall’ by the condemned, is connected by a corridor ‘in-back’ (the pet name for the execution chamber), and the ‘ice-box’ or morgue.at icebox, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 316: She trod the ‘last mile’ bravely, if not with dignity.at last mile (n.) under last, adj.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 61: I thought it over, expecting that Mike wanted to get away, ‘cop a moke’ they termed it in those days.at cop a moke (v.) under moke, n.1
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 152: ‘They place dominoes upside down on the table and if I can’t play the game they say I’m subnormal.’ ‘If they want to psyche me, they can go ahead and do it,’ another prisoner remarked.at psych, v.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 154: No formal test in the mental clinic could have ‘psyched’ Bill as successfully as he did himself.at psych, v.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 145: I next visited the ‘Sky Pilot.’ Say, Ben, he’s a regular fellow.at regular guy (n.) under regular, adj.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 37: He was world-wise and stir (prison) wise.at stirwise (adj.) under stir, n.1
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 14: This section, referred to as the ‘dance hall’ by the condemned, is connected by a corridor ‘in-back’ (the pet name for the execution chamber).at take a walk up back (v.) under walk, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 27: We daily expected our walking papers.at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 241: The judge gives a guy a sentence. When he arrives it becomes a ‘bit.’ Eventually it becomes a ‘stretch.’ Finally, on its last legs, it becomes a ‘whisper.’.at whisper, n.4
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