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Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 choose

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[US] E. Hemingway letter 19 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 2: I wanted to hire the Polacks to pick up but they wanted 5c a bush.
at Polack, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 14 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 6: We bummed around and went up on the top of the Woolworth Tower.
at bum, v.3
[US] E. Hemingway letter 21 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 12: I suppose Brummy has written you all about my getting bunged up.
at bunged up, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 18/19 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 7: Does he still classify the Chicagoan, Noblest Scion of the Windy City as a well meaning fellow.
at Windy City, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 13 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 20: Bill, this is some girl and I thank God I got crucked so I met her.
at crocked, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter c.1 June in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 11: I crawled out over the top this afternoon and took some darby pictures of the Piave and Austrian trenches.
at darby, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 2 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 5: The big political men are sure raising the merry deuce.
at raise the deuce (v.) under deuce, the, phr.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 21: The leg is pretty bum.
at bum, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 30 24: Ciaou Kid.
at ciao, phr.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: Had me practically married off and entangled with any amount of femmes.
at femme, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 21: I think of [...] you and me, a little illuminated sometimes, but always just pleasantly so, strolling through that great old place.
at illuminated, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: Rather good-looking and a pretty mean dancer.
at mean, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 321: My typewriter, slang for mill, battered key board etc.
at mill, n.1
[US] E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 21: They didn’t recognize me [...] when I piled off the train.
at pile, v.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: That place that they are pulling for very strongly is Wisconsin.
at pull for (v.) under pull, v.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 22 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 42: The mag has 65,000 circulation.
at mag, n.4
[US] E. Hemingway letter 1 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 31: Several girls got a bit miffed because I told ’em they couldn’t dance as well as you all.
at miffed, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 8 Aug. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 36: I had only six seeds to my name.
at seed, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 10 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 44: Levine is an excellent fellow and gave us the cold dope on Rooshia.
at cold, adj.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 50: Coming out Sunday I think and will cast an optic on you.
at optic, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 64: The temptation of course is to tell him to take his whole damned family and jam them as far as they will go up some elephant’s fanny.
at fanny, n.1
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 65: Do you speak frawg?
at Frog, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 64: Show the Ghee the screed.
at ghee, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 865: Some day I will get careless and he will knock me for a row of latrines.
at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 12 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 106: I’ve found it fatal to delay letters. And I want to write to you bang off.
at bang off (adv.) under bang, adv.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 23 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 77: We have 6 to 8 months grub money ahead.
at grubstake, v.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 29 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 78: I understand you are having a gutfull of Rapallo.
at gutsful, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 17–18 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 85: I suppose this sounds like all sorts of Merde from the good old manure spreader.
at manure, n.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 20 Nov. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 135: I’m having a period of not being able to do anything worth a shit after this last story.
at worth a shit under worth a..., phr.
[US] E. Hemingway letter 19 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 119: Having been bitched financially and in a literary way by my friends.
at bitch, v.
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