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[US] Carpenter 28 44: After the orchestra had played some more selections of appropriate music Attorney White E. Gibson, known as the ‘Gab Artist,’ was introduced.
at gab-artist (n.) under gab, v.
[US] U. Sinclair They Call Me Carpenter 113: Gimme a chance at those bunk-shooters – I’ll shut ’em up.
at bunkshooter (n.) under bunk, n.2
[US] U. Sinclair They Call Me Carpenter 170: He wrote down ‘John Doe Carpenter’.
at John Doe, n.
[US] U. Sinclair They Call Me Carpenter 82: If that ain’t regular Bolsheviki talk, then I’m dopy.
at dopey, adj.2
[US] U. Sinclair They Call Me Carpenter 57: It costs like smoke.
at like smoke (adv.) under smoke, n.
[US] U. Sinclair They Call Me Carpenter 124: A ‘Bolshevik stump speech’ to a mob of striking tailors.
at stump-knocker (n.) under stump, n.
[US] Carpenter Mar. 16: Organized some three years ago amid a great hoopla of Communist propaganda and promotion, it has creaked along in a very erratic and unpredictable manner [DA].
at hoopla, n.
[US] Carpenter LXXVI 14: The Curbstone Lawyer: This is the frustrated attorney whose battle cry is: ‘It ain’t legal.’ He knows all about Hapus Capus and In Hoc Signo.
at hapus capus, n.
[US] Carpenter LXXVI–VII 29: Arranged around the fence at eye level were several foot-square, wire-covered peepholes, each one engaged by an engrossed sidewalk superintendent.
at sidewalk superintendent (n.) under sidewalk, n.
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