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Knocking the Neighbors choose

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[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 154: She had not come across in any Particular.
at come across, v.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 48: Instead of sitting 8 Feet away from an Imported Orchestra at 2 A. M. [...] he began to prefer to take a 10-Grain Sleeping Powder and fall back in the Alfalfa.
at alfalfa, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 206–7: Wifey never batted an Eye.
at not bat an eye(lid), v.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 13: He would read in the Sunday Paper all that Bunk about the Down-and-Outs of the City hiking back to the Soil and making $8,000 a year raising Radishes.
at down-and-out, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 10: They ordered up Cape Cods, Pommes Let-it-go-at-that, Sweetbreads So-and-so.
at so-and-so, adj.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 121: He began grabbing Public Service Utilities by Strong-Arm methods.
at strong-arm, adj.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 108: She began to turn the Old Family Residence upside down and get it stocked up, just like a Club, for the Hot Babies from the Metropolis.
at hot baby (n.) under baby, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 131: ‘Back up, Angie!’ she exclaimed.
at back up, v.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 117: If Rufus got balled up in his Answers, his immediate Kin would pat him on the Back and tell him he was right and the TextBook was wrong.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 152: As soon as Father was bawled out as a Millionaire, it was up to Mother to join a new kind of Club.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 200: ‘She is a raving Beetle,’ explained the Prosecutor. ‘She wants to go out doors every Night and count the Moon and pull some of that shine Magazine Poetry.’.
at beetle, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 13: Once there was a tired Denizen of the Big Town whose home was at the end of a Hallway.
at big town, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 169: ‘What is the Idea?’ asked the alcoholic Henchman, looking vainly about.
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 119: If he tried to manipulate more than Two Dollars at one time, he would go Blink.
at go blink (v.) under blink, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 130: A Promissory Note that was a Bloomer to begin with.
at bloomer, n.2
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 157: He was the original Blotter. When they were trying to pry him away from it, he would take a chance on anything from Arnica to Extract of Vanilla.
at blotter, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 188: Or else blow the whole Gang to a high-priced Feed.
at blow, v.2
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 6: The Blow-Off came on the Trip to the City. That was the Big Entertainment.
at blow off, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 227: Father got so steamy that he had to blow off.
at blow off, v.2
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 121: All the Friends of Public Weal were scared Blue and retired behind the Ropes.
at blue, adj.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 48–9: The Reveler finds his bright crimson Brannigan slowly dissolving itself into a Bust Head.
at brannigan, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 55: He was breezing along the Pike at the easy Clip usually maintained by the Twentieth Century Limited.
at breeze, v.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 172: He started flitting from Bud to Debutante to Ingénue to Fawn to Broiler to Kiddykadee back in 1880.
at broiler, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 107: She could hand out that Dear Boy line of Polite Guff to all of those rugged and self-made Bucks.
at buck, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 137: The Regulars had arranged a Send-Off for Old Buck, who was pulling out for Seattle.
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 203: He is a prize Bunk, a two-handed Grafter, a Short-Change Artist and a Broadway Wolf.
at bunk, n.3
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 98: He was keyed to Concert Pitch and the Audience was Piped and all the old sure-fire Bokum of a Sentimental Nature simply Killed them.
at bunkum, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 188: Albert was burning up the Local Aristocracy.
at burn up, v.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 106: [She] would have to make an immediate Demonstration of Form to avoid being permanently Benched or sent back to the Bush League.
at bush league, n.
[US] Ade Knocking the Neighbors 50: Every time I pulled a Caper the stern-faced Mater would be at Elbow, saying: ‘Nix on the Acrobatics or you’ll lose your Number’.
at caper, n.2
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