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Scarlet Pansy 302: Marjorie would not have given a tinker’s damn to sit there.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Scarlet Pansy 302: Marjorie would not have given a tinker’s damn to sit there. Scarlet Pansy 147: Fairies with their sailors or marines or rough trade; tante’s (aunties) with their good looking clerks or chorus molls. [Ibid.] 219: ‘Young?’ gurgled an old aunty.at auntie, n.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: Here one heard fruit, banana, meat, fish, tomato, cream, dozens of everyday words used with double meaning.at banana, n.
Scarlet Pansy 333: The others present pointed her out as une belle, the same expression which is used so much in Baltimore and New Orleans.at belle, n.
Scarlet Pansy Fay, Henri Voyeur and Percy Chichi, were the guests of the very famous Beach-Bütsches. .. Coming from Europe, the family had originally settled in Fay’s natal village, Kuntzville, Pa.: [Ibid.] 269: The Beaches appeared, dragging their usual gorgeous laces and velvets regally behind them. [Ibid.] 301: La Bull-Mawgan and that damned bitch Elsie Dike, are aboard ship.at bitch, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 256: Leave out all bitch arithmetic.at bitching, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 195: Fay poured out a stiff one for each of the men and suggested bottoms up, and then another and another.at bottoms up!, excl.
Scarlet Pansy 158: The rules of etiquette were completely reversed, so much so that eventually the whole crowd was ‘bounced’.at bounce, v.1
Scarlet Pansy 162: She met many handsome men at college, who, as she said, ‘needed to be brought out’, or ‘needed to make their bow in society’ [ibid.] Miss Fish..was given to telling in the utmost detail..how she was first seduced, and how many in turn she herself had brought out: .at bring out (v.) under bring, v.
Scarlet Pansy 174: There was an elegant Miss Drexel-Bütsch of Philadelphia; also there were the Brown-Bütsches of New Rochelle (very classy indeed), and a whole Bütsch-Fuchs family in New York.at brown, adj.2
A Scarlet Pansy 184: A Miss Jackson-Browning, who had not been present at the beginning of the conversation asked [etc].at browning, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 147: There were bulldikers with their sweeties.at bull-dyker, n.
Scarlet Pansy 240: Marjorie Bull Dike [...] preferred to go about town with men. She whistled, smoked and drank like a man.at bull-dyke, n.
Scarlet Pansy 137: An anomalous-looking masculine woman, Miss Bull-Mawgan, and her inseperable friend, Elsie Dike.at bull, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 175: So they explored the Barbary Coast and visited the Bull Pen and the Log Cabin, places which Miss Savoy, in her infinite wisdom, had recommended to them as being especially entertaining.at bullpen, n.
Scarlet Pansy 342: Then they told Fay how they had volunteered from their little California town, how one of them [...] had written for the home-town paper, heading it—‘Two Bütsches Go to War’.at butch, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 174: There was an elegant Miss Drexel-Bütsch of Philadelphia; also there were the Brown-Bütsches of New Rochelle (very classy indeed), and a whole Bütsch-Fuchs family in New York.at butch, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 295: It was well nigh impossible to buy gifts, but they all rose to the occasion, stopping at the all night drugstores, picking up what they could, as Ella expressed to Kitty, ‘more for the camp of the thing than anything else’.at camp, n.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: They burlesqued all life. This they designated ‘camping’ and to ‘camp’ brilliantly fixed one’s social status’.at camping (n.) under camp, n.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: They burlesqued all life. This they designated ‘camping’ and to ‘camp’ brilliantly fixed one’s social status.at camp, v.2
Scarlet Pansy 178: ‘You tell ’em, dearie,’ commanded Old Aunty Beach-Bütsch in her affected high-pitched campy voice.at campy, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 187: Two of the younger Beach-Bütsches were there, dressed as gamins, sucking on huge peppermint flavored candy sticks.at candy stick (n.) under candy, n.
Scarlet Pansy 186: ‘Something gorgeous, simply devastating,’ Percy Chichi called it.at chichi, adj.
A Scarlet Pansy 184: ‘Why Minnie,’ shrieked one [i.e. chorus boy], ‘I didn’t know you loved chorus molls. I’ll have to get my panties pleated and begin my daily exercises with a lipstick and eyebrow pencil.at chorus man, n.
Scarlet Pansy 335: Elizabeth Thorndyke [...] nicknamed ‘Clittie’ for obvious reasons, had remained in America.at clitty, n.
Scarlet Pansy 220: [no text].at club, n.
Scarlet Pansy 190: It was ‘Bobby , dear, come here, dear, and let me fix your tie, dear,’ (Bobby of course wore severely tailored clothes, like any other collar-and-tie woman).at collar and tie (n.) under collar, n.
Scarlet Pansy 212: The Marine spoke in a high-pitched Southern cracker drawl.at cracker, adj.1
A Scarlet Pansy 341: They sang Miss Savoy’s campy chorus-- ‘Whoops! Whoops! Whoops! My dear!/ Can you tell me if she’s queer?/ Would she learn to do the crawl?/ Would she go to balls and all? Would she dance the can-can-can/ For her great bid strong he-man?at crawl, n.
Scarlet Pansy 341: Whoops, Whoops! Whoops, my dear! / Can you tell me if she’s queer? / Would she learn to do the crawl? / Would she go to balls and all? / Would she dance the can-can-can / For her great big strong he-man?at crawl, v.2
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