1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 131: You turn down a few birth-control ads. every year.at ad, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 50: Come along to the so-and-so for a drink: it’s the only place where they can mix a so-and-so.at so-and-so, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 149: Betty has found herself a fine-looking animal who’s in such a bad way that he’s gnawing her right shoulder on the dance floor.at animal, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 197: The bad cheque artist does not hesitate, nor stammer blushingly.at -artist, sfx
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 144: Did you ever see such a nasty bit of work?at nasty bit of work, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 104: If the lid blows off Danzig the hotel will be empty within twenty-four hours and we shall be bust.at bust, adj.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 199: The French are very hard on people who use indiarubber cheques.at rubber cheque, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 65: She’s liable to cut up rough if I cart her for the evening.at cut up rough, v.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 220: The drunken Indian princeling [...] carelessly handed a sheaf of milles to a blond gold-digger.at gold-digger, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 106: What did you slip in his drink? Knock-out drops?at knockout drops, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 50: I named the same old martini [...] after about a dozen floosies.at floozy, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 65: Palm Beach is open and we might have a flutter.at flutter, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 184: Hell’s bells! For God’s sake don’t let Betty know I brought Mona back with me.at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 229: You and Mr Whitely and the Hunyaks – meaning my other two bosses – can take care of the brandy.at hunyak, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 73: That Mrs Whitely and the Rooshian dishwasher was whooping it up a bit last night.at whoop it up, v.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 41: ‘Jumpin’ Jehosophat!’ exclaimed Mike [...] ‘that dame sure has hollow legs.’.at jumping Jehoshaphat!, excl.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 29: You suggest, I gather, that I may know more of financial jiggery-pokery than that precious crew of Marseillais pickpockets.at jiggery-pokery, n.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 11: It is as well [...] that I do not have to kill these macaronis.at macaroni, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 64: We soon had our muzzles deeply into goblets of dry champagne laced with brandy.at muzzle, n.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 40: Fancy lettin’ yourselves be pushed around by a little sawn-off runt with a Charlie Chaplain moustache!at sawed-off, adj.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 200: If at the end of three days you have not been able to raise the wind, I shall be compelled to hand you over to the police.at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 68: What did you expect me to do? Come and sandbag you and drag you down by force?at sandbag, v.1
1940 S. Lister Mistral Hotel (1951) 91: It’s France’s big day. Storming of the Bastille and all that. There’ll be a tremendous schemozzle in the village that night.at shemozzle, n.