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Enormous Room (1928) 151: ‘Lord Algie’ – a lanky, effeminate, brittle, spotless creature who was en route to becoming an officer and to whose finicky tastes the fat-jowled A. tirelessly pandered for, doubtless, financial considerations.at Algie, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 151: ‘Lord Algie’ – a lanky, effeminate, brittle, spotless creature who was en route to becoming an officer and to whose finicky tastes the fat-jowled A. tirelessly pandered for, doubtless, financial considerations. Enormous Room (1928) 85: I don’t put you on a car together. I’m ashamed to do it, that’s why. I doughwanta give this section a black eye.at give someone/something a black eye (v.) under black eye, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 153: Put the bracelets on an ordinary man, tell him he’s a bad egg, treat him rough, shove him into the jug or its equivalent [...] and he will become one of three animals – a rabbit, that is to say timid; a mole, that is to say stupid; or a hyena.at bracelets, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 167: They used what bulge they had to such good advantage that one of them, during my stay, was pursued with a revolver by their sergeant, captured, locked up, and shipped off for court-martial on the charge of disobedience and threatening the life of a superior officer.at bulge, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 167: They had the bulge on everybody.at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 194: When we asked him once what he thought about the war, he replied, ‘I t’ink lotta bullsh-t,’ which, upon copious reflection, I decided absolutely expressed my own point of view.at bullshit, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 177: They were all individually intoxicated. Celina was joyously tight. Renée was stiffly bunnied [sic]. Lena was raucously pickled. Lily, floundering and staggering and tumbling and whirling, was utterly soused.at bunned, adj.
Enormous Room (1928) 158: The poise has a cigarette in its hand, which cigarette it has just pausingly rolled from material furnished by a number of carefully saved butts (whereof Afrique’s pockets are invariably full).at butt, n.1
Enormous Room (1928) 48: ‘The can stinks.’ They did not smile and said, ‘Naturally.’.at can, n.1
Enormous Room (1928) 33: The Head Cop has particularly requested the pleasure of this distinguished American’s company at déjeuner.at cop, n.1
Enormous Room (1928) 40: I was at the time innocent of third degree methods.at third degree, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 86: And you fellers are always hangin’ round, talkin’ with them dirty frog-eaters that does the cookin’ and the dirty work round here.at frog-eater, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 89: I said, ‘F— it, I don’t want it.’ Let him have it. That’s no kind of a job, every one complaining and on top of you morning till night.at fuck it!, excl.
Enormous Room (1928) 283: A little later he came rushing up to my bed in the most terrific state of excitement [...] and cried: ‘You f— me, me f— you? Pas bon. You f— you, me f— me:— bon. Me f— me, you f— you!’.at fuck, v.
Enormous Room (1928) 195: A terribly tall, rather round-shouldered individual, of whom I said to myself immediately: ‘’By Jove, here’s a tough guy and a murderer all in one.’.at tough guy, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 256: The Young Pole backing and filling and slipping in the deep ooze under the strenuous jolts, jabs and even haymakers of The Fighting Sheeney.at haymaker, n.2
Enormous Room (1928) 56: Hey Jack, give me a cigarette, Jack.at jack, n.1
Enormous Room (1928) 84: Your friend’s here, Johnny, and wants to see you.at johnny, n.1
Enormous Room (1928) 178: Count Bragard [...] said with lofty disgust that it was ‘no better than a bloody knocking ’ouse, Mr. Cummings.’.at knocking-shop, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 32: ‘Maybe we’d better ring off, or you’ll get in wrong with —’ he indicated t-d with a wave of his head.at ring off, v.
Enormous Room (1928) 88: Get out of the way, you dam Polak!at Polack, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 153: Put the bracelets on an ordinary man, tell him he’s a bad egg, treat him rough, shove him into the jug or its equivalent [...] and he will become one of three animals – a rabbit, that is to say timid; a mole, that is to say stupid; or a hyena.at rough, adv.
Enormous Room (1928) 114: We joined the line of fellow-prisoners with their breads and spoons, gaping, belching, trumpeting fraternally, by the doorway.at trumpet, v.
Enormous Room (1928) 45: The can excited my curiosity. I lookd over the edge of it. At the bottom reposefully lay a new human t..d.at turd, n.
Enormous Room (1928) 32: ‘Maybe we’d better ring off, or you’ll get in wrong with —’ he indicated t-d with a wave of his head.at get in wrong (v.) under wrong, adv.
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