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John Gielgud’s Letters choose

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[UK] J. Gielgud letter 4 Apr. in Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 100: He is already going on the bat [...] a sad case of hopeless drunk.
at on the bat under bat, n.3
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 3 Nov. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 217: I even got a couple of bites at an old cherry which relieved the strain on my starving basketwork after so many weeks of frustration.
at basket, n.1
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 13 May in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 231: Ed is being blackmailed by some Florentine ex-bit.
at bit, n.1
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 12 Dec. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 251: Carol Channing is rather a camp and quite a dear.
at camp, n.2
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 24 June in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 232: Witness to a quite interesting gangbang in which the principal performers were Patrick [...] and a German [etc.].
at gangbang, n.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 20 Jan. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 223: Turned down 25,000 dollars to do Potting Shed on TV [...] Get me!
at get you! (excl.) under get, v.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 5 Aug. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 235: The S.M. [...] wears skin tight Sun Tans with an enormous packet!
at packet, n.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter June in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 233: Gorgeous Italian boys, gents and trade alternately.
at trade, n.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 13 May in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 231: I suspect it [i.e. a blackmail attempt] is only a try-on and they should be firm and undismayed!
at try-on (n.) under try, v.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 25 Feb. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 260: I am rather dreading discussing the Larry situation. I gather his N.Y. play is N.G.
at n.g., phr.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 10 Oct. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 268: Christ on a bicycle!
at Christ on a bike! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 30 Aug. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 281: Most of the cottages [in Venice] have gone or been redesigned.
at cottage, n.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 27 Dec. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 318: [Going mad is] Less humiliating though, I suppose, than cottage-crawling!!
at cottage, v.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 12 Jan. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 319: Hugh [...] feared it might get the bird in England.
at get the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 11 Feb. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 320: Unbelievably jungle dancing and steel guitar.
at jungle, adj.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 18 Jan. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 320: Katherine Dunham dancers doing appalling jungle bunny ballets.
at jungle bunny (n.) under jungle, adj.
[UK] J. Gielgud letter 6 Mar. in Mangan John Gielgud’s Letters (2004) 328: They are only half compos.
at compos, adj.
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