c.1932 N. Algren ‘Lest the Traplock Click’ in Callithump mag. in Texas Stories (1995) 2: He had bummed in the reefer more times than he had thumbs on his left hand.at bum, v.3
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 15: Guys like me can’t never get away with bull like that to big-league lawyers like yourself.at big-league, adj.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 19: What do you think that rookie done when it pull up and I was shovin’ him into the blind, suitcase and all?at blind, n.2
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 16: That Jew didn’t know what that chip wanted a-tall.at chip, n.3
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ Texas Stories (1995) 16: A dollar-woman come by and give us the eye.at dollar-woman (n.) under dollar, n.1
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 26: I seen a new Chrysler [...] and in front of it a big elephant ears was standin’.at elephant ears (n.) under elephant, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ from Story mag. in Texas Stories (1995) 21: I got my hooks in him then and set him down hard.at get one’s hooks on (v.) under hook, n.1
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ from Story mag. in Texas Stories (1995) 18: He ain’t goin’ to hop nothin’ but blind baggage on a silk manifest.at hop, v.1
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ from Story mag. in Texas Stories (1995) 19: When we got to Houston we had the chance to hop a hot-shot clear down to the valley.at hot-shot, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 16: I tol’ him he could get most of them for six bits if he jewed them down a little.at jew, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ from Story mag. in Texas Stories (1995) 24: We got a big pint for $1.00 and [...] after we killed it we still had twenty cents left.at kill, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 25: He says I can have the roscoe if I wish to be selfish, but he will get a long cut short for hisself.at long, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 19: I yelled back, you yellow Mexican bastard you, oney I said it in Mex.at Mex, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 17: He [...] didn’t offer the kid none ’cause he oney had a mite left for hisself.at mite, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 25: The Jew will grab the oday he says like it is all settled.at oday, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 19: He run after me and give me one on the side of the head.at give someone one (v.) under one, n.1
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 17: It began to gimme a pain just to look at that weasly-lookin’ puss.at puss, n.2
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 18: He was pretty wobbly, and when he seen the kid right away he wants to roll him, and pick up a rock as big as your head to do it with.at roll, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 19: What do you think that rookie done when it pull up and I was shovin’ him into the blind, suitcase and all?at rookie, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 25: It is all very well for you to say that one roscoe is enough when you are carryin’ it.at roscoe, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ Texas Stories (1995) 20: He had sewed her up but his pa wouldn’t let him marry her on account she ain’t no Jew.at sew up, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ Texas Stories (1995) 22: By the time it is morning I had decided to shake him, suitcase or no suitcase.at shake, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 25: I ax him what he is going to use for money to get the short.at short, n.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ (from Story mag.; in Texas Stories 1995 17: He gave me a shot but didn’t offer the kid none.at shot, n.1
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 18: He ain’t goin’ to hop nothin’ but blind baggage on a silk manifest.at silk, adj.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 26: I figger to myself he musta squeezed the Jew.at squeeze, v.
1933 N. Algren ‘So Help Me’ in Texas Stories (1995) 16: I had a hunch I could wangle a meal out of him if I just hung on a minute.at wangle, v.
c.1935 N. Algren ‘A Holiday in Texas’ in Texas Stories (1995) 40: Ah was beat an’ ah was starve — boys! — when ah was twenty ah didn’t have a pot to pitch in.at beat, adj.
1935 N. Algren ‘Thundermug’ in Texas Stories (1995) 74: There was a wad in the right [shoe] big enough to choke a string-haltered mare.at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.