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[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 19: The chief of police in Berlin is as queer as they make them himself. Anyway you needn’t worry, they recognize that you’re the B.M. stuff.
at B.M., n.1
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 22: After New England, and that absurd moral bugaboo.
at bugaboo, n.1
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 10: His camping manner, copied from stage fairies in America, sat strangely upon him.
at camp, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 10: Foster was camping, hands on hips, with a quick eye to notice every man who passed. [Ibid.] 11: It’s only that you are difficult when you camp around people who don‘t understand.
at camp, v.2
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 10: Foster [...] was pleased with the new wardrobe he had bought there, careful this time to see that every garment had a chichi touch. The trousers he wore were drawn in at the waist and pleated there. The coat was padded smoothly at the shoulders, so that the descending line to the waist gave his figure a too obvious hour-glass appearance.
at chichi, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 27: Sailors in civvies.
at civvies, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 22: A German boy came to the table and took her aside, to sell her cocaine [...] we decided to invest in a deck each.
at deck, n.4
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 17: We voted against all the gold-digging dance places, and decided to look over the queer cafés.
at gold-digging, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 19: He [...] began soon to relate a variety of fairy stories which he had heard while in the army.
at fairy, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 10: It’s a shame for me to make an effort to get off with anybody here.
at get off with (v.) under get off, v.2
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 23: I know darn few of the hangouts there.
at hang-out, n.1
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 12: ‘Goodness me, Marjorie, I just love art. I love art,’ Foster minced [...] ‘Will there be some pretty pictures of naked boys?’ [Ibid.] 22: Dearie, the Countess has a new lover, and she’s green-eyed if I go near her Marjorie.
at Mary, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 17: We voted against all the gold-digging dance places, and decided to look over the queer cafés.
at queer, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 26: We’d better take a sniff of the cocaine.
at sniff, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Distinguished Air (1963) 14: She was so stinking drunk both times.
at stinking, adv.
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