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[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 10: I am now nothin’ less than a full fledge A No. 1 2nd lieutenant.
at A-1, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 10: I am now nothin’ less than a full fledge A No. 1 2nd lieutenant and I got these babies salutin’ me.
at baby, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 278: ‘How much is this baby here?’ I says, pointin’ to the limousine.
at baby, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 115: Well, Joe, the sergeant gets balled up, and the officer cuts in on him.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 278: Ain’t that car a beaut?
at beaut, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 75: Don’t go and croak on me while I’m gone, because then this guy will put the bee on me for about ten francs for bringin’ him over.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 291: I wouldn’t get in that boat for a cut of the Liberty Loan [...] If that thing’s a auto, I’m president of Samoa!
at boat, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 77: That’s what he calls this boiler.
at boiler, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 337: I bet you got the books all yellin’ for the cops! You clean up with dollar bets at six to five.
at book, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 140: It’s slightly different with a woman, especially one which is a boss good looker.
at boss, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 15: I wanted to bounce one off his chin.
at bounce, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 373: Lefty never had a chance with this bird and might just as well of been a armless wonder.
at brainless wonder (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 39: The first Y.M.C.A. guy that faced me fanned the breeze on two outshoots.
at fan the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 184: On account of him comin’ back we can’t get no brew.
at brew, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 371: Like most fatheads, Lefty figured a woman falls into the arms of a bruiser which will beat up the present incumbent.
at bruiser, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 95: They claimed what right had he to order them around when they was all brothers now and a general was the same as a buck private.
at buck private, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 172: Believe me, buddy, we’ll make them babies pay triple for everything they done!
at buddy, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 158: I could yell out loud with joy, only that smoke-room steward [...] has got me buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 307: One day a guy is runnin’ for President of Russia and the next he’s runnin’ for his life, and if he does get elected he gets the bum’s russia before he can even say I thank you.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 147: You never could drink anyways, and used to get a bun on from readin’ a beer sign outside a saloon.
at bun, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 66: They go under the name of cuteys. Joe, they sure do like a soldier, and once they make up their minds to bunk with you, Sherlock Holmes couldn’t find ’em.
at bunk, v.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 186: At first it made me sore the same as it prob’ly has a old bar buzzard like you.
at buzzard, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 49: I’m positive that all the French I’ll ever learn will never show on me nowheres, and I’m ready to call it a day right now.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 286: So you fin’ly got rid of the old tin can, hey?
at tin-can, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 34: I [...] started to go out when the Plattsburg guy which acted like he was a capper for the show or somethin’ says to wait for the next act.
at capper, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 66: There is one thing over here which gives us a great deal more trouble than the Germans, and that is a alien insect which is called a ‘cutey’.
at cootie, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 259: The French language made everything but the Cuteys quit, but maybe they talk like me and you now.
at cutie, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 206: I could of trimmed you anyways. I was a fine simp to make a deal with you. Hurry up and take a dive, I gotta date.
at take a dive (v.) under dive, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 239: Then he tells me I’m a lucky dog to have such a wife and baby.
at dog, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 21: I then go over to see JEANNE, this here million dollar doll.
at doll, n.1
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