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‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 251: Paddy the Booster, who sells neckties he steals from haberdashers.at booster, n.2
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 251: Paddy the Booster, who sells neckties he steals from haberdashers. ‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 250: The shooflies are working in our territory [...] and we can’t let a big brawl like this run.at brawl, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 247: The best you can get there [...] is a chance to work Saturday night at a ruptured saloon for bubkis.at bupkes, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 244: A week in a Chink joint in Yonkers.at Chink joint (n.) under Chink, adj.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 256: Marty the Clutch [...] gets his name from his humorous custom of mangling people’s fingers when he shakes hands with them.at clutch, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 259: He asked me for a loan of three dollars so he could get his teeth out of hock to con a sucker.at con, v.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 262: After that he had to play the duck for Johnny for a couple of years.at play the duck (v.) under duck, n.6
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 264: The Count became so interested in his idea that he forgot to duck with Boatrace Harry’s money.at duck, v.1
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 250: The shooflies are working in our territory [...] and we can’t let a big brawl like this run.at shoo-fly, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 252: Them apple-knockers just sat there from sorrow. [Ibid.] 254: The singers are from hunger [...] the performers are from hunger.at from, prep.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 235: Morty meticulously refers to all youngish women as ‘heads,’ which has the same meaning as ‘broads’ or ‘dolls.’.at head, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 259: He asked me for a loan of three dollars so he could get his teeth out of hock to con a sucker.at in hock under hock, n.2
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 245: When he drinks, he sometimes threatens to put the muscle on strangers who refuse to pay for his liquor.at put the muscle on (v.) under muscle, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 244: The hint is enough ordinarily. When it is not, Jack uses the muscle.at muscle, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 237: They just stick their potato in every office and say, ‘Anything for me today?’.at potato, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ Just Enough Liebling (2004) 257: The promoters, the fellows who are always trying to earn, in the local idiom, a soft dollar.at promoter, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 256: I once seen the Clutch get a rock off a ticket broker [...] By the time the scalper noticed the ring was gone, he thought [etc.].at scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 245: Will you okay me with a Shylock, Morty?at shylock, n.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 257: The promoters, the fellows who are always trying to earn, in the local idiom, a soft dollar.at soft, adj.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 250: [She] books stag shows for conventions.at stag, adj.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 246: When [...] it says in the paper he has had stiff opposition [...] that means the opposition has been stiffs.at stiff, n.1
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 251: It’s all right, Mrs. Van Schuyler, we got the shooflies taking now.at take, v.
‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 248: I booked a man with a trained dog into one trap in Astoria.at trap, n.1
‘Westbound Tanker’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 80: You had to buy a bottle at a package store and take it into a soft-drink joint to get a set-up.at set-up, n.1
‘The Foamy Fields’ Just Enough Liebling (2004) 123: Momyer had shot down a Junkers 88 and Messerschmitt [...] He was hot.at hot, adj.
‘Quest for Mollie’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 166: We took the position and cleaned up on the enemy.at clean up, v.
‘Quest for Mollie’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 174: She [...] said he had always had an awful crust.at crust, n.2
‘Quest for Mollie’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 157: The djellabah [...] serves as a repository for everything the goum gloms.at glom, v.
‘Quest for Mollie’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 165: Mollie was the biggest popoff and the biggest screwball and the biggest foul-up I ever saw.at pop-off, n.1
in ‘Quest for Mollie’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 166: The next time we got in a fight, we said to ourselves, ‘These guys are just looking for an easy out.’.at out, n.
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