1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 237: You doing a Rube act?at do a/an — act (v.) under act, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 137: After I had done my song-and-dance (apple-sauce) about the bitters [...] he turned me down cold.at apple sauce, n.2
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 268: You are just a wistful old bearcat [... ] one, in short, with a magnetic personality whose power over such as won his notice would be found all too plausible by casual reporters.at bear cat (n.) under bear, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 141: Well, you old bonehead (one of strong character!).at bonehead, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 247: It certainly does make a brutal overhead for a snare like this, poppa.at brutal, adj.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 264: He is following my trail [...] and any moment he is liable to come with a couple of bulldogs and pinch me.at bulldog, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 230: It was certainly soft sugar for that buttercup.at buttercup (n.) under butter, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 188: Mrs. Gale rather looked down upon her neighbors, calling them fly-by-nights.at fly-by-night, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 317: She ain’t got a Chinaman’s chance.at Chinaman’s chance, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 319: It’s a cinch bet they are now chasing me to K.C.at cinch, adj.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 338: We had some lively bouts with the hazardous cubes.at cube, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 313: Why, you sly old cutie! Who’d have thought it?at cutie, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 72: Any dipper that tries to frisk you will have his work cut out.at dipper, n.2
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 233: She was dog-tired and would like to hit the good old hay.at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 266: He plays the piano with Reddick, and he’s some Humpty-Dumpty on it.at humpty-dumpty, n.2
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 142: It’s foolish for a couple of grown men [...] to let a nitwit like that dutch up the best route in Iowa.at Dutch, v.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 90: However, I have a flash. I got it when come along in that car.at flash, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 265: We couldn’t turn the poor old fluff (sap) loose.at fluff, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 312: I fell in with the frail that runs a meat joint and she told me all about our doings.at frail, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 120: If any of these yaps (hicks) tries to get funny, just give him a dirty look and clam up.at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 109: Do it with real acting so the hicks (suburbanites) will think they’re getting the real gazukus. [Ibid.] 124: I will say you are the goods (the gazukus).at gazookus, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 315: Say what you will, he’s got a world of gimp.at gimp, n.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 66: You are a wreck, a down-and-outer, and pretty far gone.at gone, adj.1
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 206: Driving my car around hog-wild, jamming its fenders against every tree in the whole country.at hog-wild (adj.) under hog, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 148: Of course the poor fish (demented person) ought to be some good booby-hatch (hoosegow).at hoosegow, n.
1924 H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 66: Maybe you have the makings of a man left in that old hulk yet.at hulk, n.