1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 23: All those civilians and 4Fs have put you up to this.at 4F, n.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 229: Nevertheless she is reckless and a spendthrift and doesn’t keep the house clean and is a con artist and exploits me.at con-artist, n.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 259: I promised you backsheesh, old man, and here are the papers for the jeep, made over to you.at baksheesh, n.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 162: There was an all-out, slam-bang, grand salute of the guns.at slam-bang, adj.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 7: Some of the discontinued bills of thirty years ago turned up, the big yellowbacks.at bill, n.3
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 165: Why were my bones molten in those great cathedrals of France so that I couldn’t stand it and had to booze up and swear at Lily?at booze up, v.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 133: I didn’t have the strength to take this leap. I was too bushed.at bushed, adj.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 309: He was no cold-storage, Ivy League, button-down, broken-hipped civilian like you.at button-down, adj.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 298: ‘I’ll fix your wagon,’ I promised him in silence.at fix someone’s wagon (v.) under fix, v.1
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 184: That big Henderson finally got his [...] He probably bullied some natives and they stabbed him.at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 178: A powerful ambition had me and I was a goner.at goner, n.1
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 57: If you mobilized the whole place and everybody pitched in – gung-ho!at gung-ho, adv.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 316: The Canadian hicks were rejoicing underneath with red faces.at hick, n.1
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 15: Hell! How can you live in this stinking joint?at joint, n.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 46: I felt I was entering the past – the real past, no history or junk like that.at junk, n.1
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 119: She may have been a hot lay once, as she claims.at lay, n.2
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 120: Let’s jump off the train and paint the town red.at paint the town red, v.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 180: I’m going to give you the straight poop about myself, as straight as I can make it.at poop, n.4
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 133: If they wanted to hang a rap of sacrilege on me, I was guilty all right.at hang a rap on (v.) under rap, n.1
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 229: I felt like [...] snoozing, anything except tackling such hard material.at snooze, v.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 12: Damn these weak drunks! [...] I can’t stand these clowns who go out in public as soon as they get swacked to show how broken-hearted they are.at swacked (up), adj.
1959 S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 29: You last husband went to President Roosevelt’s prep school – watchumajigger.at whatchamacallit, n.