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[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 Remember the time some bean tried to sell you Broadway for next to nothing; hey?
at bean, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 And the biggest boobist of all is the gent who says he ain’t, never was, and never will be [a sucker].
at boob, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 I’ll buzz now that we never had to pay the forfeit during the ten weeks that the major was with us.
at buzz, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 He [...] owned a face that would have knocked a movie leading man for a two-bagger or a triple to center.
at knock for a loop (v.) under knock, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 The next [letter] was a lalaplunko.
at lallapaloosa, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 ‘Doc,’ he says, ‘I ain’t much on this psycho— well, what he said—stuff.’.
at psycho, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 Not being a trouper, we let him slide.
at let slide (v.) under slide, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ in Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 We got answers from every squirrel-dodger in the world, including Greenwich Village, where they tell you that a pretzel is human.
at squirrel-dodger (n.) under squirrel, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Score Another One for Barnum’ Argosy All-Story 11 Sept. 🌐 Sir Dante Grimm, Student of Facial Control and Will-Power—that’s his stuff—was sitting on the platform.
at stuff, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 Boy, howdy! The titles alone would have made you seasick!
at boy howdy! (excl.) under boy, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 He looks at me kind of goofy.
at goofy, adv.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 Unless we prepare to meet Japan in the fast approaching future, the Japs will soon be hanging around Times Square like locusts, and then we’ll all be in hock.
at in hock under hock, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 In the lecture no one got knocked for a row of stars.
at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 They’re all dressed up like a million dollars.
at look (like) a million dollars (v.) under million, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 He’s wearing one of them soup-and-fish outfits.
at soup and fish (n.) under soup, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Art for Artie’ Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 Bill gets into a corking jam with the villain [...] and it begins to look as how Bill was gonna be tapped for a trip to the next world.
at tap, v.2
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