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[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 171: Virginia, on hands and knees, worshiping at the white altar.
at worship at the white altar (v.) under altar, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 103: The half that were press you might expect – I was their bread and butter.
at bread and butter, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 107: Sennett cursed me up and down.
at up-and-down, adv.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 122: Wall Street money was getting antsy.
at antsy, adj.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 178: Maude was a bad bag of applesauce.
at apple sauce, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 199: Brady would have probably strong-armed them like he did all the other witnesses.
at strong-arm, v.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 43: ‘Hey, fat-ass?’.
at fat-arse, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 60: ‘Strap on your feedbag and come to Kelso’s!’.
at put on the feed bag (v.) under feed bag, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 160: A batch of actors [...] on the lam from Los Angeles were generally banging around.
at bang around (v.) under bang, v.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 114: The people we trusted [...] came over to empty my barf buckets.
at barf, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 18: Daddy [...] barreled in from the fields.
at barrel, v.2
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 116: Zukor insisted on an elaborate bash, a ‘kickoff dinner.’.
at bash, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 121: Having tooled all the way from Los Angeles to Beantown, I was so tired [etc.].
at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 177: I could not have been wrong if I’d bet the farm on the Kaiser.
at bet the farm (v.) under bet, v.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 268: I’d do my shows, have dinner with my better half, and go back.
at better half, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 233: Those biddies are too hard up for champagne.
at biddy, n.2
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 120: Along with the showbiz bigwigs, the attorney general [...] was on hand.
at bigwig, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 37: Unt now, ve haf a young blimp [...] named Fatty.
at blimp, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 130: Listening to him bloviate about ‘stagecraft’ and ‘the lure of the boards.’.
at bloviate, v.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 201: This ain’t a rooming house for famous blubber-guts.
at blubber-gut (n.) under blubber, n.2
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 235: The Tenderloin bluebirds stepped back to their positions.
at bluebird, n.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 135: He kneeled and kissed my brogans.
at brogan, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 138: Before the guy even gets my John Q and turns away, Daddy shakes his head and says [etc.].
at John Brown, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 34: Will didn’t say anything about a bruiser like you being part of the deal.
at bruiser, n.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 85: Mack got the California bug after gsi god D.W. hightailed it [...] to sunnier climes.
at bug, n.4
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 205: Even with my bug-juice hangover, I almost laughed.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 17: Bug-eyed and stubbly after a three-day bender.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 235: She was a bughouse slut!
at bughouse, adj.1
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 198: A major directorial talent, bum-rushed from the industry.
at bumrush, v.
[US] J. Stahl I, Fatty 149: Keeping my cakes clenched.
at cake, n.1
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