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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 172: You talk like a man up a tree, you holy sky-pilot.at up a tree, phr.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 172: You talk like a man up a tree, you holy sky-pilot. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 444: Both French leave and the Dutch act are out of the question now. I have decided to stay – till I can walk through the gates.at Dutch act, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 197: You’re a dead give-away.at give-away, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 219: The whole week I look forward to the brief respite from the terrible ‘basket’ cell [...] The torture of the ‘basket’ is maddening.at basket cell (n.) under basket, n.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 242: You bet your sweet life, I did.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 241: You ought to see me drive to me girl’s house, big-like.at big, adv.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 164: Think I’d open my guts to my Lord Bighead?at big head, n.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 145: Look at the lifers. You’d think they’d be black as night.at black, adj.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 328: The head nurse (he’s in for murder, and he’s rotten) taunted me with the ‘black bottle’.at black bottle (n.) under black, adj.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 307: The chief cook drops in to visit ‘his’ boy.at boy, n.2
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 50: Then it’s plain ‘bughouse,’ no use talking.at bughouse, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 260: My shoes are on th’ bum. I am walking on my socks.at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 458: ‘You take that chair,’ pointing toward the second barber, a former boilermaker, dreaded by the men as a ‘butcher’.at butcher, n.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 50: Why, it was none of my ‘cheese’.at cheese, n.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 164: It was Hail Columbia all right.at hail Columbia, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 192: The muttonhead sent for th’ district attorney the same day, an’ signed a third confesh.at confesh, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 127: The Captain of the night watch is ‘fierce an’ an ex-fly’.at fly cop, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 130: Dis ’ere is crank shop. Dey never put a mug ’ere ’cept he’s bugs.at crank, adj.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 325: I am placed in Number 35, the ‘crank row’ beginning several cells further. [...]. [Ibid.] 347: A good-natured boy, turned imbecile by solitary [...] staring at me from the ‘crank row,’ wild-eyed and corpse-like.at cranky hatch, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 190: Damme if it ain’t his third one.at damme!, excl.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 190: What you grinnin’ for, Four Eyes?at four-eyes, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 457: ‘You fakir, we’re next to you, all right.’ [...] He murmurs plaintively, ‘Yis, sir, me seek, very seek.’.at fakir, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 466: The officers openly avowed they would ‘fix his clock’.at fix someone’s clock (v.) under fix, v.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 163: I ain’t no gaycat to work.at gaycat, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 130: Had a scrap wid de screws. Almost knocked me glimmer out.at glimmer, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 478: The law allows five months ‘good time’ on every year beginning with the ninth year of a sentence.at good time, n.1
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 198: A real good gun’s always got his fall money planted, – I mean some ready coin in case of trouble.at gun, n.5
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 192: The muttonhead sent for th’ district attorney the same day, an’ signed a third confesh.at mutton-head, n.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 199: He’s the rottenest sneak in the dump, a swell-head yap.at swell-headed, adj.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 178: Hey, there, Horsethief, quit that!at horse thief (n.) under horse, n.
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