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The Permanent Playboy choose

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[US] R.P. Smith ‘The Goofy Girls’ in Russell Permanent Playboy (1959) 140: ‘Was it ever an evening! I mean to tell you.’ ‘The bee’s knees,’ she’ll say, and giggle.
at bee’s knees, n.
[US] R.P. Smith ‘The Goofy Girls’ in Russell Permanent Playboy (1959) 139: I was a sad bird all full of cosmic ideas [...] and flapdoodle.
at flapdoodle, n.2
[US] R.P. Smith ‘The Goofy Girls’ in Russell Permanent Playboy (1959) 138: Whatever happened to the goofy girls? The goofy girls were wonderful. They used to have names like Flip and Bootsie, and they said things like, ‘You tell ’em, kid, I stutter’.
at goofy, adj.
[US] R. Russell Permanent Playboy 251: What honesty! What frankness! You’re no flake, Taddie.
at flake, n.2
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