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[US] Look 18 Sept. 34: Mary Lou meets her husband in front of the club for breakfast in a beanwagon next to people just going to work.
at bean wagon (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] Look 18 Sept. 6: Have the Marines and th Army got ‘drag’ with you?
at drag, n.1
[US] Look (advert for Nescafé) 18 Sept. 10: His aide quickly stirred up a cup of Nescafé, then said ... ‘Well sir, try this!’ He did ... stared in amazement ... and yelled, ‘Gee whiz!’.
at gee whiz!, excl.
[US] advert for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Look 18 Sept. 4: Lina Romay, a hot tamale.
at hot tamale, n.
[US] Look (ad for Kreml hair tonic) 18 Sept. 73: No wonder girls ‘turn on the ice’ when he asks for a date.
at give someone the ice (v.) under ice, n.1
[US] Look (ad. for Ex-Lax) 18 Sept. 77: Sulking is often a child’s way of avoiding something unpleasant – like the ‘sissy’ laxative some parents give their children.
at sissy, adj.
[US] Look (ad for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film) 18 Sept. 4: There’s Bunny Smith, the hotel stenog (that’s Lana).
at stenog, n.
[US] Look (ad for Borden’s Hemo vitamins) 18 Sept. 18: I’m convinced the Yanks are better looking, handsomer than our boys.
at Yank, n.
[US] Look 14-26 169: In the brilliance of his El Cheapo strategy and design, he resembles Napoleon.
at el cheapo, adj.
[US] Look 27 Dec. 72: Toward the tenth hour, a few hang-ups were pulled out – sex and the church, fear of being unloved.
at hang-up, n.2
[US] Look 14 Nov. 114: With ‘Gimme five’ and ‘Way to go!’ he incessantly congratulates and cheers teammates and friends [HDAS].
at give me five! (excl.) under five, n.2
[US] Look 8 Aug. in Lingeman 1969: n.p.: The fringe majority, friends, roommates of ‘heads,’ puff pot a couple of times and use amphetamines before exams.
at puff, v.
[US] in Look 6 Feb. 76: Violence by some freaked-out drughead [HDAS].
at drughead (n.) under drug, n.
[US] Look 10 Mar. 58: Anybody [on the team] who talked to a reporter could go on Durocher’s bleep list.
at bleep, n.
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