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While Rome Burns choose

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[US] A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 258: My partner ... will ... beat the be-Jesus out of you.
at bejazus, n.
[US] A. Woollcott While Rome Burns (1936) 42: Juventino Rosas [...] who once wrote a pleasant and rather hoppy waltz.
at hoppy, adj.1
[US] A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 180: Your correspondent, a nighthawk of parts in those days, was within ear-shot.
at nighthawk, n.
[US] A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 304: This [...] reticence [...] will [...] be described by certain temperaments as [...] good taste [...] I say it’s spinach.
at spinach, n.3
[US] A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 48: There he was at last with his underpinnings shot from under him.
at underpinnings, n.
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