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My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village choose

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[US] F. Harris My Life and Loves I 61: Again I dreamed of Lucille and again I was trying, trying in vain to get into her when again the spasm of pleasure overtook me.
at get into, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 94: They call themselves models – in the Village we call them horizontalists: they make their living lying down.
at horizontal, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 63: She is a lesbian and he is a ‘fairy’ and she obviously looks upon herself as the ‘husband’.
at husband, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 120: These dens of iniquity are real ‘nut’ clubs, in the pathological sense of the word.
at nut, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 63: We speak of a domineering wife who ‘wears the pants’.
at wear the pants (v.) under pants, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 100: The Village novelist had a ‘stable’ of chorus girls at his estate.
at stable, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 68: He’s making a story (a row, a fuss, a scene) about an overcoat he’s missing.
at story, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 11: Poetry was once Big business in the Village.
at Village, the, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1961) 58: He is married to a handsome young man [...] Having assumed the role of ‘wife’ in a marital relationship that is quite common in Bohemia.
at wife, n.
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