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[US] S.G. Wolsey Call House Madam 109: Run it as a call joint, but keep the standard up. High prices. A minimum twenty-five dollar fee. Something about that. Keep the riffraff out.
at call joint (n.) under call, v.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 20: A lot of big numbers who’d made the steep grade and landed in the top brackets.
at big number, n.2
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 430: A Pasadena hotel man sent his son over to us [...] to lose his cherry in our house.
at lose one’s cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 282: This same cuckoo bird threw a stag party one night.
at cuckoo bird (n.) under cuckoo, n.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 292: She was mixed up later in one of the rottenest shooting messes ever staged in Hollywood, but she got away with her end of it and never paid her dues.
at pay one’s dues (v.) under dues, n.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 20: Like a hint to the elbow-benders.
at elbow-bender (n.) under elbow, n.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 266: Hers is a story of a ‘madam’ of fast houses.
at fast house (n.) under fast, adj.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 256: She could get red-hot and strike with the speed of a scorpion if somebody got her nanny.
at get someone’s nanny (v.) under nanny, n.5
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam 266: Why wasn’t I someone else—anybody but a nookie-bookie.
at nookie bookie (n.) under nookie, n.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 442: Sure, peacherino, I see how it is.
at peacherino (n.) under peach, n.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 381: I’d fill my pen to the brim again / When I dipped in sweet Nellie’s well!
at pen, n.1
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 440: Oh lord – cripes – Jesus – don’t be perfumed! I’ve led a life of hell.
at perfume, v.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 433: You son-of-a-pissant!
at pissant, n.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 344: The puella – she knows the motions that interest you and is bringing on the mood [...] Lesbian love makes girls go that way.
at puella, n.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 343: Purple love’s no good cold sober.
at purple, adj.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 401: I knew they’d want stag motion pictures.
at stag movie (n.) under stag, adj.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 441: Kornfeldt was [...] now running a café in the Strip district.
at Strip, the, n.
[US] Davis & Wolsey Call House Madam (1943) 212: Ravenwood insisted I should join his boys, make whoopee.
at make whoopee (v.) under whoopee, n.
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