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[US] Frank L. Packard ‘Coogan’s Last Run’ in Top-Notch 1 Feb. 🌐 Be he king, prince, president, shogun, or high-mucky-muck of whatever degree.
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 ‘I’ll bet it’s a contract,’ said I, enthusiastically. ‘Oh, boy! It’s the bacon, all right.’.
at bacon, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 ‘And they own motors and live in swell hotels. Give ’em credit!’ ‘Credit beans!’ grunted he.
at beans!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 ‘Cheer up, Jeff,’ I said, trying to make him feel better [...] ‘Cheer up beans!’ he raved.
at beans!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 And there I was trying to scheme up a new plot with that chick tittering like a canary bird.
at chick, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 I got a corking idea for a song while I was half asleep,.
at corking, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 My stories have got that bunch of millionaire scribes beaten to a fare-you-well!
at to a fare-thee-well (adv.) under fare-thee-well, phr.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 During the next half hour Jeff busied himself with the frame-up letters.
at frame-up, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 Would the editor get all the gravy?
at gravy, n.
[US] F.L. Packard ‘Coogan’s Last Run’ in Top-Notch 1 Feb. 🌐 ‘You’re jumping a man pretty hard, aren’t you, Mr. Carleton?’ he said resentfully.
at jump, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 Hit that ‘do’ key; harder, Miss Hemp [...] It sounds like money.
at money, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 He’ll get paid just as soon as some of those dyspeptic editors slip me some coin. It won’t be the first bill he’s muffed.
at muff, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 I’m dead sure that I’ve written one of the greatest mush stories ever attempted.
at mush, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 Did you taste that hash? Some mystery, take it from me!
at mystery, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 All the Factory Fannies, Stella Stenogs, and Candy Carries go plumb nutty over such stuff!
at nutty, adj.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 Wait until you see the song I just wrote; it’s a peacherino.
at peacherino (n.) under peach, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 ‘It’s a little raw, Jeff, isn’t it?’ I said. ‘Raw your grandmother! I’d put a bomb into each one if I could.’.
at raw, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 Speeder hit a scorcher that knocked Hookus on his ear—.
at scorcher, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 I’d advise you to shoot it [i.e. a story] to the Eversob Monthly.
at shoot, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Stroke of Genius’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 ‘Have a slant at this, Jim,’ he said, as he passed me one of the finished letters.
at take a slant (v.) under slant, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Nearly Over’ in Top-Notch 15 Apr. 🌐 He had a grand smash-up with the superintendent and was promptly fired.
at smash, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 She was trying to extract a few tears from the latest sob book.
at sob book (n.) under sob, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 When a girl has to measure out ribbons all day at Flooker’s Department Store she hasn’t got any time to delve into the squeaks of song writers.
at squeak, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Fall of the Wise’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. [Internet] I want some fellow to get up on that ballyhoo and tell the folks what a great, grand, and glorious show we got on the inside.
at ballyhoo, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Missed in Missouri’ in Top-Notch 15 May 🌐 The grinders barked loudly enough to make a dog pound sound like a violin solo.
at bark, v.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Shorter Hours, Longer Pay’ in Top-Notch 1 Sept. 🌐 We’ve got a barrel of trouble—the whole works have struck!
at barrel, n.1
[US] F.L. Packard ‘Never Again’ in Top-Notch 15 Jan. 🌐 Cut down operatin’ expinses, is ut? [...] Begorra, I’ll begin right now!
at begorra!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Fall of the Wise’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 Talk? Say, that beezark could convince an anarchist that a profiteer had a good chance of going to Heaven! [Ibid.] Right away I saw that this beezark lived on sirloin of dictionaries and fillet de books.
at bezark, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Shorter Hours, Longer Pay’ in Top-Notch 1 Sept. 🌐 What we want is more cherries—more coin. See?
at cherries, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Fall of the Wise’ in Top-Notch 1 Apr. 🌐 I’ll admit that you framed me pretty smooth.
at frame, v.
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