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New Yorker 2 May 3/3: After a significantly pathetic and pompous appeal in behalf of their ‘undertake-in’ the publishers close with the parting injunction—‘Reader fork over!’ [DA].at fork over, v.
New Yorker 2 May 3/3: After a significantly pathetic and pompous appeal in behalf of their ‘undertake-in’ the publishers close with the parting injunction—‘Reader fork over!’ [DA]. New Yorker 2 July 227/1: The conversation turned upon courting. ‘Well,’ said honest Jack, ’ I never got the mitten but once in my life’.at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
New Yorker 25: Roskin, of this floor, and Ed. O’Shaunnessy with a blondie; also the Mawruss Bros, who stagged it.at blondie, n.
New Yorker 8 Dec. 31: C.C. Pyle [...] invented the bunion derby and lured [...] Red Grange and Suzanne Lenglen into the gilded cage of professionalism.at bunion derby, n.
New Yorker 3 Nov. 94: Cowboy – A taxicab driver who makes speed through traffic and around fenders.at cowboy, n.
New Yorker 15 Dec. 55: Everything looks McCoy, see? [HDAS].at McCoy, adj.
‘The Follow-up’ in New Yorker 7 July 37/1: ‘May I please speak to Mister Throckmorton?’ [...] ‘Oh, this is Mr. Throckmorton speaking. On the wire.’ ‘Beg pardon?’ ‘I say Throckmorton on the wire. This is Throckmorton’.at wire, n.1
‘Conditions at the Pool’ in New Yorker 6 July 45/2: Not that I want everybody to get all up in the air about this matter, but I think it’s high time we did something about it.at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
New Yorker 26 Jan. 41/3: [title] Fifteen and Five / Conversation with a taxi-driver who writes poems.at fifteen and five, n.
‘Mauve Starts Early Grid Drill’ in New Yorker 21 Sept. 101/1: From now on everything has to be snappy. First one of you guys I see laying down on the job, that guy hands in his suit and goes out for glee club.at lay down (on one’s/the job) (v.) under lay down, v.
‘Convention’ in New Yorker 15 June 80/3: F.W. is a humane employer, always with the best interests of his employees at heart, as witness for instance the various social events which he finances throughout the year out of his own pocket. I mean he’s not a driver.at driver, n.
New Yorker 17 Aug. 21/2: People said ‘the El’ [...] the brevity and humor of the name being another evidence of the metropolitan spirit [DA].at el, n.1
‘Halloween Party’ in New Yorker 26 Oct. 36/1: I feel pretty sure that. Mr. Cleary will be wearing some kind of a costume like King Arthur or a sheik or some other expensive get-out that he wouldn’t want ruined.at get-out (n.) under get, v.
‘Fifty-Cent Meal’ in New Yorker 12 Jan. 64/2: I paid fourteen bucks for the tickets but what the hell, we don’t have reunions every night of the week.at what the hell!, excl.
‘Conversation with a Russian’ in New Yorker 29 Mar. 45/1: The American was angry. ‘Blah! Savage, the problem with you is you got a taste of American gold and it’s too much for you’.at blah!, excl.
‘Beaux Arts’ in New Yorker 25 Jan. 30/3: I had a slight buzz myself, so I wasn’t paying much attention. Do you know where we ended up? At the Waldorf.at buzz, n.
‘New Day’ in New Yorker 23 Aug. 38/3: In Childs she went to a ‘deuce,’ or table for two, in the bay window.at deuce, n.1
‘A Convert to Equitation’ in New Yorker 3 May 53/1: You’ll find that the best horsemen [...] ride the way I do. Post to the trot, that’s the dope.at dope, n.1
‘Varsity Manager’ in New Yorker 25 Oct. 62/3: On the [football] practice field, heeling the managership, he had to be able to do pretty much of everything.at heel, v.1
‘Varsity Manager’ in New Yorker 25 Oct. 62/3: [H]e had become a person [...] a handsome young man who wore a complete suit, and not the sloppy raiment he had to wear while a heeler.at heeler, n.
‘Conversation with a Russian’ in New Yorker 29 Mar. 43/1: ‘It must be a monotony to you if always I am glum. It must be a bore.’ The American was kind. ‘Not at all. Hell no’.at hell no! (excl.) under hell!, excl.
‘On His Hands’ in New Yorker 22 Mar. 62/2: ‘If the family stopped my allowance now, why, I wouldn’t have a cent till I’m twenty-one, see?’ ‘Yeah,’ said Blakely, ‘that’s the hell of it’.at hell of it, the (n.) under hell, the, phr.
‘Suits Pressed’ in New Yorker 8 Feb. 28/3: He looks like an old French Jesuit I once knew, but the old Jebby didn’t look like a Frenchman.at Jebby, n.
‘The Man Who Had to Talk to Somebody’ in New Yorker 11 Oct. 60/3: Williams and I used to work in the same office. It was a snap job for both of us and the pay was poor, so we sat around a lot.at snap, adj.1
New Yorker 24 Oct. 72: Then there were the ‘cockamanies’ — painted strips of paper which the kids applied to their wrists and rubbed with spit until the image was transferred to their hand.at cockamamie, adj.
‘Mort and Mary’ in New Yorker 6 June 38/3: He would, of course, be a Jesuit, because wasn’t he going to St. Francis Xavier’s over in Sixteenth Street? That’s a Jebby school.at Jebby, n.
‘Mr. Cass and the $10,000’ in New Yorker 25 June 53/2: [H]e was vaguely polite. ‘How’s everything by you, Cass?’.at how’s by you?, phr.
‘I Never Seen Anything Like It’ in New Yorker 3 Sept. 35/1: One of them goes over and shakes Paddy but they coulda been an oithquake and Paddy wouldn’ta moved. Not Paddy when he’s cocked.at cocked, adj.
‘I Never Seen Anything Like It’ in New Yorker 3 Sept. 35/1: Geez, if he’d of been singing the way he usually is when he gets about half-cocked why it mighta been all right, but no, the mugg was sound asleep with his head on the bar.at half-cocked, adj.
‘Ella and the Chinee’ in New Yorker 23 Jan. 59/3: The tong flare-up died down and Lee became completely a yellow-skinned old bore.at flare-up, n.1
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