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Detective-Dragnet magazine choose

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[US] E.A. Clancy ‘Flies on the Ceiling’ in Detective-Dragnet May 🌐 Any time Mrs. Million-bucks of Park Avenue loses her pet dog, she can get the commish on his private phone.
at commish, n.
[US] E.A. Clancy ‘Flies on the Ceiling’ in Detective-Dragnet May 🌐 She’s one of these little blond babies [...] what do you think that dumb Mabel did.
at dumb dora (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[US] E.A. Clancy ‘Flies on the Ceiling’ in Detective-Dragnet May 🌐 I’m kinder curious to have a look at a dame what is so dumb as to let her new chauffeur hold two-hundred-thousand dollars worth of social glassware.
at glass, n.2
[US] E.A. Clancy ‘Flies on the Ceiling’ in Detective-Dragnet May 🌐 It suddenly occurred to her peanut mind that she’d like to stop a minute and telephone a friend.
at peanut, adj.
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