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Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge choose

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[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 37: A noted beard architect and designer of many famous beavers.
at beaver, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 155: ‘Let us have tiffin,’ I rejoined acidly, and forthwith we left on a crumpet bender.
at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 119: There was once a certain Moorish bimbo [...] by the name of Etta Falcovsky.
at bimbo, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 187: I suppose you feel like Andrew Carnegie every time you yank a buffalo out of your pants and throw it to me like a fish to a seal.
at buffalo, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 187: That chinless wonder boy friend of hers.
at chinless wonder, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 121: Izzy’s grandpaw [...] left him half a million clams.
at clam, n.2
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 169: A slant-eyed Oriental named John Chinaman.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 84: They ‘’fessed’ up that their name was not King after all.
at fess, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 173: What a flutter-budget I am, to be sure.
at flutterbudget, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 206: The first picture (posed by ‘Honey-Boy’ Shugrue and Maggie Klein).
at honey, n.1
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 84: Applebaum retorted that the mere mention of Harvard gave him the starboard jitters.
at jitters, the, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 81: The theme song from Olive Hasholem’s opera: Marriage by contract, I love you [...] Mammy and her gigolos, my old Kaintucky home.
at Kentuck, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 21: G’wan, I’ll knock you for a row of red-headed Riffians!
at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 186: To think of some of the hot numbers I’ve turned away on account of you!
at hot number (n.) under number, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 116: You must know old Larry Schultz, my roomie!
at roomie, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 195: Paul, as the photo reveals, is just crawling with s.a.
at S.A., n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 186: To think you having the gall to shove the skids under me!
at shove the skids under (v.) under skids, n.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 13: She broke out with the yellow jack. But she lived.
at yellow jack (n.) under yellow, adj.
[US] S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 38: ‘Trader Horn’ is wired for electricity and lights up with an eerie glow at night that is positively zoftik.
at zaftig, adj.
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