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The Show Girl and Her Friends choose

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[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 14: Boozers and chasers do not write.
at chaser, n.1
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 62: I don’t care if a lot of people say Dopey is a dead one.
at dead one, n.
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 115: It ain’t in New York alone that the drama’s on the dink.
at on the dink under dink, n.3
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 62: I don’t care if a lot of people say Dopey is a dead one.
at dopey, n.3
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 156: Flowered turbans and flower muffs with chiffon is to be all the gazizz!
at gazizz, n.
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 49: And what do you think? He had the impudence to tell me that Louie Zinsheimer was a kike!
at kike, n.
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 16: Them kike clothes.
at kike, adj.
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 62: I tipped Moxie, the newsy, [...] to tell Louie and Abie we wanted to see them.
at newsie, n.
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 62: I tipped Moxie to pipe all the free lunch layouts down the line.
at pipe, v.3
[US] R. McCardell Show Girl and Her Friends 48: You know how it is when you are out with a shellbark [sic]. You hope [...] he’ll loosen up and buy you something nice.
at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
[US] McGaffey Show Girl 166: He is kept busy looking after the animals at both the Hip. and the circus.
at Hip, the, n.
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