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Dear Bess — the letters from Harry S. Truman to Bess Truman, 1910–1959 choose

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[US] H.S. Truman letter in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 23: A pretty good piano player, Ivory tickler, as Shorty Short says.
at ivory-tickler (n.) under ivory, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 30 Jan. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 70: You ought to see me teach blockheaded Masons how to talk.
at blockheaded, adj.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 26 Nov. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 105: I guess I’ll be a clodhopper and pay the grafters.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 30 Sept. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 137: Hoffman’s man tried to sell us an old banged-up Hinze piano.
at banged up, adj.1
[US] H.S. Truman letter 30 Sept. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 137: I have been working like Sam Hill this morning.
at Sam Hill, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 30 Sept. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 137: There was a punk show on at the Hip.
at Hip, the, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 2 Sept. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 135: You are going to get your letter on Tuesday if everything holds together and ink don’t play out.
at play out (v.) under play, v.
[US] H. Truman letter 21 Jan. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 111: She finally decided that I am a very poor stick to talk to.
at stick, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 8 Sept. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 174: It is necessary to see the Chink doctor every day this week.
at Chink, adj.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 28 Oct. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 233: I have to get the canteen in apple-pie order.
at apple-pie order, n.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 21 Oct. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 232: We’ll be hard-boiled and bomb-happy when we get to Berlin.
at -happy, sfx
[US] in H.S. Truman in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 227: We are all as happy as can be expected for a bunch of house plants.
at house-plant (n.) under house, n.1
[US] H.S. Truman letter 3 Oct. in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 228: From then on until twelve-thirty salesmen nearly ran me ragged.
at run someone ragged (v.) under run, v.
[US] H.S. Truman letter 15 July in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 335: It has been customary for some years for the reserves to have a ‘badger fight’ [...] Well a badger fight is not a very ladylike affair nor is it intended to be.
at badger, n.2
[US] H.S. Truman letter 13 July in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 347: I got a skinning for not doing it some other way.
at skinning, n.2
[US] H.S. Truman letter 3 July in Ferrell Dear Bess (1983) 367: I’m just a d.f. I guess.
at d.f., n.
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