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Gunner Depew 205: The Germans did not give a dime a dozen whether we heard them or not.at not care a cent, v.
Gunner Depew 205: The Germans did not give a dime a dozen whether we heard them or not. Gunner Depew 65: More than a third of our men [...] had been pretty tough criminals in their own countries. [...] This war was not such a much to them; just one more job on the list .at such-a-much, adj.
Gunner Depew 288: Kate was the only patient able to be on his feet, so I thought he would have to be my chief cook and bottle-washer for a while.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Gunner Depew 158: These knock-down-drag-out artists follow the riflemen closely.at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
Gunner Depew 158: These knock-down-drag-out artists follow the riflemen closely.at -artist, sfx
Gunner Depew 129: They did not brag when they gave the Turks beans [NB only in UK edn].at give someone beans (v.) under beans, n.2
Gunner Depew 234: It is all right to be a Coney Island snowbird and pose around in your bathing suit in the drifts.at snow bird, n.1
Gunner Depew 309: I supposed that negroes were scarce in Switzerland. What a treat it would be for a Swiss to visit the ‘black belt’ down South!at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
Gunner Depew 145: We breezed out towards the horizon full speed ahead.at breeze, v.1
Gunner Depew 18: There is a saying in the merchant marine that the bucko mate of a Lime-juicer is the toughest guy in the world, but they do not think so in the navy.at bucko, adj.
Gunner Depew 217: I divided a cigarette with another fellow. Remember, we were sitting and standing on ammunition all this time. It shows how much we cared whether school kept or not.at not care whether school keeps / is kept or not, phr.
Gunner Depew 77: ‘Gimme a deck of the stuff. Dope out the coke, Doc, dope out the old coke. Tell me, do I croak, Doc?’ .at coke, n.1
Gunner Depew 77: ‘Gimme a deck of the stuff. Dope out the coke, Doc, dope out the old coke. Tell me, do I croak, Doc?’ .at dope, v.1
Gunner Depew 16: I could never understand it, but garbies and marines never mix. The marines are good men and great fighters, aboard and ashore, but we garbies never have a word for them, nor they for us. On shore leave abroad, we pal up with foreign garbies [...] A Limey garby told me it was the same way with them.at garby, n.
Gunner Depew 53: The boys used to call him ‘Ginger’ Brown, both on account of his red hair and his slow movements.at ginger, n.1
Gunner Depew 81: Guess you never thought you’d see me here in this tin derby, picking Fritzes and Heinies, did you?at Heinie, n.
Gunner Depew 203: That was just like the Limeys, though. They will carry on, to use a well-known expression, ‘till hell freezes over’.at until hell freezes (over) under hell, n.
Gunner Depew 82: We [...] hit the old vino till she hollered for help .at hit, v.
Gunner Depew 281: [F]inally the thought seeped through the ivory and he began to laugh .at ivory, n.
Gunner Depew 66: Some of them claimed he was a Jonah, or jinx, or bad luck of some kind.at jonah, n.
Gunner Depew 18: British ships are called ‘Lime-juicers’ and their sailors ‘Limeys’.at lime-juicer, n.
Gunner Depew 281: Like many others, if it had not been for [US Ambassador] Gerard, I would be kaput by now .at kaput, adj.
Gunner Depew 1240: The Queen Elizabeth entered the Dardanelles [...] the water was simply thick with mines, and, for all anybody knew, with subs. Yet old Lizzie just sailed right along.at lizzie, n.1
Gunner Depew 238: So they drilled me up in front of our men [...] and I opened up. The first thing I said [etc].at open up (v.) under open, v.
Gunner Depew 309: I enjoyed it all right; they were not in squads and had no arms, so it was hand to hand, and pie for me .at pie, n.
Gunner Depew 16: I planted him one in the kidneys and another in the mouth.at plant, v.2
Gunner Depew 255: [W]hatever supplies the letters pulled, he promised to give to the men who let him use their last names .at pull, v.
Gunner Depew 285: Then I thought it was a put-up job and that he was getting even with me.at put-up job (n.) under put-up, adj.
Gunner Depew 81: Ain’t it hell the way they got this whole bunch sewed up in the gully?at sew up, v.
Gunner Depew 23: [of Europe] There were five of us who went to Boston to ship for the other side .at side, n.
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