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[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 190: Tear the man’s clothes from his body [...] down to his B.V.D.’s.
at B.V.D.s, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 258: If the peacemakers had used their ballyhoo and their advertising space to point out the piling tide of the sins of individual Americans [...] the campaign might have had a powerful effect upon humanity.
at ballyhoo, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 134: There were some Jewish gangsters [...] but there were shanty Irish rum barons.
at baron, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 13: The radio blats away all day and night without the dimmest notion of responsibility for the effect of what it says.
at blat, v.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers xviii: We are talky people but our whole jargon consists, nowadays, of blurb.
at blurb, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 17: Thus, if Germany or Japan conquered the whole world, the winner would take all – including the problem of man and science, unsolved, and further boggled by whatever medieval nonsense would be added by the Germans.
at boggled, adj.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 255: Without refinement, dignity, or a sense of itself either as an entity or a necessary expression of other than America’s worst, it [i.e. Washington] is a painted boneyard.
at boneyard, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 46: Nobody wishes to be married to a brassy tart destined soon to turn into a vengefully destructive middle-aged harpy.
at brassy, adj.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 300: Ministers do not have any such natural honesty of approach [...] They therefore fawn on, drip over, and butter up their Lord.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers frontispiece: You Bought the War.
at buy, v.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 138: All the rest of mankind was cold turkey, to be preyed upon.
at cold turkey, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 92: It will very likely cause you to cork off screaming to the nut factory.
at cork off (v.) under cork, v.1
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 133: The statements and figures upon which Hitler bases his monstrous accusations are simply crap.
at crap, n.1
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 6: Pompous doodles, many of whom hold Heidelburg degrees, thank that about the Germans.
at doodle, n.1
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 262: ‘Right dress’ makes a convoy duck soup for the ‘Browning shot’.
at duck soup, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 4: We [the U.S.] will sit like a benign Dutch Uncle at the peace table and hand out Sunday School rules and diplomas to the infuriated peoples of Europe.
at Dutch uncle, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 97: It is common people who scream for blood at prize fights. It is common people who, acting concertedly, vote fools into Congress [...] Common people run our rackets. Common no-good sons of bitches.
at no-good, adj.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 231: Business cannot let go [...] its perquisites of swag, won bets, tribute, lucky dough, family endowment, and so on. This is the gravy.
at gravy, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 294: The church insists that people adopt its values [...] Prohibition, and other hooey.
at hooey, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 134: There were some Jewish gangsters [...] but there were shanty Irish rum barons.
at shanty Irish, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 62: We are a sexy folk [...] frequently on the make in bush and juke joints.
at juke, n.1
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 19: The radio set on the common man’s bedside table is a thundering rebuke to the reliability of the cluck beside it and the macaroon singing over it.
at macaroon, n.1
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 185: Megaloid momworship has got completely out of hand.
at mega, adj.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 61: Many of the men who are inborn sluggers of nances are motivated by a sense of shame and fear caused by the fact that they have engaged in lifelong psychological battles to repress [...] homosexual urges.
at nance, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 64: The automobile is, for them, a detached, portable bedroom. In it they consummate their sex necessities by what they call ‘petting’ – still naively assumed, by older folk, to be synonymous with ‘necking’.
at necking, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 168: A shrinking-violet attitude, a pants-wetting nice-Nellie-ism, behind which modern doctors hide.
at nice-nellyism (n.) under nice nelly, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 103: Most of the treatises on what is called ‘mob psychology’ are the work of nitwits.
at nitwit, n.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 92: It will very likely cause you to cork off screaming to the nut factory.
at nut factory (n.) under nut, n.2
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 90: The peewee caliber of teachers as a class, has reduced our education to a public swindle, an assassination of sanity.
at pee-wee, adj.
[US] P. Wylie Generation of Vipers 164: The whole world of man knows that to grow thinner you need only eat less and take more exercise and if you cannot do that, it’s generally your head, not your pod, that needs attention.
at pod, n.1
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