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The Adventures of Jimmie Dale choose

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[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) 9: ‘I never read your beastly agony columns,’ said Jimmie Dale.
at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iv: About fifteen thousand. I guess she ain’t got any more than that, or I’d have raised the ante.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I viii: ‘Mistake,’ said Stangeist suavely [...] ‘You’re pretty wide awake for this time of night, aren’t you, Clarie?’.
at wide-awake, adj.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ix: Up and down through the Bad Lands, in gambling hells, in vicious resorts [...] through the heart and the outskirts of the underworld travelled the fiat.
at bad land (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ii: There’s nothing to interest you around here! [...] Go on, now—beat it!
at beat it, v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I viii: [of a safe] Type K-four-two-eight-Colby [...] A nasty little beggar—and it’s eleven o’clock now!
at beggar, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II vii: I believe some chauffeurs have a habit [...] of taking, shall we say, their ‘best girl’ out riding in their masters’ machines?
at best girl (n.) under best, adj.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II xi: ‘Well, wot’s bitin’ youse?’ inquired the Magpie ironically.
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale 135: Blast you, Mope! [...] You’re too blamed fly! D’ye wanter queer the whole biz?
at biz, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I x: Why, blame you, you’ve been aching for a year to put the bracelets on me yourself!
at blame, v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I i: It was a blind, of course. He worked alone, absolutely alone.
at blind, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I viii: You sit down, or I’ll blow your block off!
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I xi: We’re after something here, and you’ve blown the whole game—savvy?
at blow, v.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iv: Break his heart at witnessing the young master he had dandled on his knees going to the damnation bowwows.
at damnation bow-wows, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iv: That bum break Gregor made when he pinched the cracked plate put the finish on that.
at bum break (n.) under break, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I i: The Gray Seal’s come to life! He’s just pulled a break on West Broadway!
at break, n.5
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I v: This ain’t any police job, my bucko.
at bucko, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I viii: We was to bump him off, anyway, wasn’t we?
at bump (off), v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I vi: When I’m ridin’ in me private buzz wagon, Wowzer, youse stick around.
at buzzwagon (n.) under buzz, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iv: The Cap’ll be along in a minute.
at cap, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ii: You’re going to the chair for this, Clayton. [Ibid.] viii: D’ye think we was goin’ ter stand fer havin’ a trip ter Sing Sing an’ the wire chair danglin’ over our heads!
at chair, the, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ix: D’youse t’ink dis is a tee-ayter, an’ dat youse are a cheap-skate actor strollin’ acrost de stage?
at cheapskate, adj.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I xi: Tell your story—who’d believe it! I got you cinched.
at cinch, v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ix: Who’s ter know youse gets yer claws on it?
at claw, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I ii: Wot’s de fly cops doin’ out dere?
at fly cop, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I viii: Aw [...] youse can’t work dat crawl on—.
at crawl, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II xi: We’ll crack de crib early.
at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II i: With one there was the death house at Sing Sing for the Gray Seal; with the other—well, there were many ways.
at death house (n.) under death, n.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I vi: The same old bunk dished out night after night at so much a head.
at dish (out), v.
[US] F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I vi: Youse been stallin’ on me fer a year every time it came to a divvy.
at divvy, n.1
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