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‘Portrait of a Flapper’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 172: These fancy Johns who look like they were the class. But are they? Nix. And don’t I give them the berries quick?at give the berries to (v.) under berries, the, n.2
‘Portrait of a Flapper’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 172: These fancy Johns who look like they were the class. But are they? Nix. And don’t I give them the berries quick? ‘A Chilly Looking Blond’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 210: Mrs. Snyder and Gray have been ‘hollering copper’ on each other.at holler copper (v.) under copper, n.
‘A Chilly Looking Blond’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 210: Mrs. Snyder and Gray have been ‘hollering copper’ on each other.at holler copper, v.
‘Portrait of a Flapper’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 172: I don’t let any John get moldy on me. Soon as I see they’re heading for a dumb time I say ‘razzberry.’ And off your little sugar toddles. [Ibid.] 174: Say this is a dumb place.at dumb, adj.1
‘A Chilly Looking Blond’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 211: Old Father Adam, the original, and perhaps the loudest ‘squawker’ among mankind against women.at squawker, n.
‘A Pretty Cute Little Stunt’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 159: I [...] got in my Chivy and drove right on down to the station.at Chevvy, n.
‘A Pretty Cute Little Stunt’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 162: I’m on the dog, just a poor down-and-outer.at on the dog under dog, n.2
‘A Pretty Cute Little Stunt’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 158: You old potwalloper, you!at pot-walloper, n.
‘A Pretty Cute Little Stunt’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years
(1959)
162: This bum, just as ragged and dirty as a Turk, stood up.at turk, n.1
‘Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 280: Curious egg-headed Humbert Fugazy, the little Italian banker.at eggheaded, adj.2
‘The Gimp and His Girlfriend’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 122: There was something about the Gimp [...] He walked with a limp.at gimp, n.2
‘Language of the Roosevelt Haters’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 381: She ought to stay at home [...] instead of gallivanting around the country making a holy show of herself.at holy show, n.
‘Benny Goodman and Bach’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 465: These boys and girls were devotees of swing, ready to dance in the aisles of the theatre amid shouts of ‘Get off, Benny! Swing it!’.at get off, v.2
‘Mary White’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 60: She used the car as a jitney bus. It was her social life.at jitney, n.
‘The New Leisure Class’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 343: The invasion of music by radio, whether ‘live’ or ‘canned’ was greater still.at canned, adj.
‘The New Leisure Class’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 313: Old newspapers were called ‘Hoover blankets,’ jack rabbits ‘Hoover hogs’ and the shanties of starvation rising on the outskirts of cities ‘Hoovervilles’.at hoover, adj.
‘The New Leisure Class’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 313: Old newspapers were called ‘Hoover blankets,’ jack rabbits ‘Hoover hogs’ and the shanties of starvation rising on the outskirts of cities ‘Hoovervilles’.at hoover hog (n.) under hoover, adj.
‘The New Leisure Class’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years (1959) 313: Old newspapers were called ‘Hoover blankets,’ [...] and the shanties of starvation rising on the outskirts of cities ‘Hoovervilles.’.at -ville, sfx1
‘The Changes It Wrought’ in Brookhouser These Were Our Years
(1959)
147: Youngsters had learned to play ‘chicken’ and hot-rod enthusiasts had taken to the road.at chicken, n.
‘Come Quick, Indians!’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 270: I’d take a last drag on the Sweet Caporal.at drag, n.1
‘No Business Like the Band Business’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 477: A group of gutbucket performers.at gutbucket, adj.1
‘Doing Nothing Was Wonderful’ in These Were Our Years (1959) 72: No jolly little round songs about the friendly little mongoose going buckety-buckety down the big big road.at bucket about (v.) under bucket, n.
These Were Our Years 119: The speak-easies, the bathtub gin, the gangsters: I do not regret that I knew them.at bathtub hooch (n.) under bathtub, n.
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