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Vandover and the Brute (1914) 41: ‘Ah, Dolly, you’ve got a bean,’ muttered Ellis.at bean, n.3
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 41: ‘Ah, Dolly, you’ve got a bean,’ muttered Ellis. Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: I thought I’d blow myself for some rags.at blow, v.2
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: Oh, you ought to have heard the blowing up I gave my tailor!at blowing-up, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 75: You can’t tell a girl like that that you’re ashamed to be seen with her, but very likely he would get himself into a regular box with it all.at in a box under box, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 48: Geary made a ‘josh’ that was a masterpiece, the success of the occasion. It consisted in exclaiming from time to time: ‘Cherries are ripe!’ This was funny. It seemed to have some ludicrous, hidden, double meaning [...] when a girl passed them on Kearney Street and Geary cried out that her cherries were ripe.at cherry-ripe, n.2
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 20: I shook those chippies. I sized them up right away [...] They were no good.at chippie, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 307: The cubby under the sink was abominably dirty.at cubby, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 75: On a certain evening about four months later Ellis and Vandover had a ‘date’ with Ida Wade and Bessie Laguna.at date, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 266: You look like a death’s-head, man! What’s gone wrong? Aren’t you well?at death’s head (n.) under death, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 81: Bring me a stringy rabbit and a pint of dog’s-head.at dog’s head (n.) under dog, n.2
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 58: Ida was [...] as jealous of her reputation as only fast girls are.at fast, adj.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 233: You would feel as though I had taken advantage of you at this time and worked a flim-flam on you!at flim-flam, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 227: What’s all the matter with you? You look all frazzled out, all pale around the wattles.at frazzled, adj.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 58: She was very clever: half her acquaintances, even the men, did not know how ‘gay’ she was.at gay, adj.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 78: ‘Ah, get on to the red red hat!’ exclaimed Vandover. [...] ‘That’s the third time she’s passed.’.at get on to (v.) under get on, v.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 227: You do look gone-in this morning, sure. [Ibid.] 243: Put me to bed, will you, Bandy? I feel all gone in.at gone in (adj.) under gone, adj.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 299: ‘Well, I guess yes,’ she answered. ‘You Harvard sports make a regular promenade out o’ Washington street.’.at I guess yes! (excl.) under guess, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: I let him have it right straight.at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 227: You look all frazzled out, all pale around the wattles. Ah, you’ve been hitting up a pace again.at hit up, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 228: I jewed him down [...] from twenty-five thousand I brought him right down to, say, eight thousand.at jew, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 48: Geary made a ‘josh’ that was a masterpiece.at josh, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: I came back on the four o’clock boat and held down the ‘line’ on Kearney Street for an hour or two.at line, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 80: He looked after the girl a moment and muttered scornfully: ‘Cheap meat!’.at meat, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 78: ‘This is too much,’ he gasped. ‘Such magnificence, such purple and fine linen.’.at too much, adj.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 81: Say [...] can’t you live without trailing around after some kind of petticoats?at petticoat, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 250: Then they began to ‘plunge,’ agreeing to play a no-limit game.at plunge, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 79: I thought I’d blow myself for some rags.at rags, n.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 38: On very rare occasions they saw him in society, at the houses where their ‘set’ was received.at set, n.1
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 228: As soon as he’d squeal I’d spring cold cash on him.at spring, v.
Vandover and the Brute (1914) 47: What do you say that we all go to every joint in town, and wind up at the Turkish baths? We’ll have a regular time.at time, n.
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