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George Spelvin, American and Fireside Chats choose

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[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 59: Americans eat hot dogs. At the races the aristocracy belly up to the counters and take them from the hands of the counter men.
at belly up (to), v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 140: There were quite a few young corn-fed frauds of both sexes.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 77: Whatever you do, somebody squawks. They crack wise about your wife. Remember how you used to crack wise?
at crack wise, v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 56: The American hot dog, a habit-forming sausage.
at hot dog, n.1
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 75: You are inclined to take socks at people when you are drammed up.
at drammy (adj.) under dram, v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 44: George Spelvin, American and his ever-loving have been having the devil’s own time with old Hattie the potwalloper who has been working around their bower these last fifteen years.
at ever-loving, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 76: How do you like it in the White House by now, Funny-face?
at funny-face (n.) under funny, adj.2
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 75: President Spelvin Swings on Russian Ambassador and Is Goaled by Left to Chin.
at goal, v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 46: Bulletins, which old Hat addresses to herself, calling the Spelvins all kinds of louses and gyps.
at gyp, n.1
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 141: It was not [...] the fad of Viennese mind-probing but an appetite for horribly foul sex stuff and the hope of dirty people that some head-feeler would tell them that they could cure their nervousness only by spending a week-end [...] with some other man’s girl.
at head-feeler (n.) under head, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 93: You smoke an underslung pipe and holler ‘Hell-an’-Maria!’ at the right time and place.
at hell and tommy! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 132: So you are yellow. A ki-hi, hey? And a bum, too.
at ki-yi, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 95: Show the camera a lot of leg-meat.
at meat, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 95: Skin up your skirt to show a mess of leg.
at mess, n.1
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 177: They made a very unfavorable impression on the hot-eyed world-shakers of the New Deal.
at mover, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 75: That old lady of yours is going to give you plenty of headaches shooting off her face.
at shoot off one’s face (v.) under shoot off, v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 52: Old Hattie, his household pan-wrestler, joins a union.
at pan-wrestler (n.) under pan, n.1
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 44: George Spelvin, American and his ever-loving have been having the devil’s own time with old Hattie the potwalloper who has been working around their bower these last fifteen years.
at pot-walloper, n.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 67: Have you been two-timing me, out holding down a job on me while I’m away?
at two-time, v.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 154: You shut your dumb Dutch trap—.
at shut one’s trap (v.) under trap, n.1
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 103: Speculating whether she was married and if so whether her husband was a big, dumb, jealous brute or some weedy little squirt.
at weedy, adj.
[US] W. Pegler George Spelvin Chats 44: He thought of giving Hattie the wind back in 1931 when he was out of a job himself.
at give someone the wind (v.) under wind, n.2
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