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Halo For Satan choose

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[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 83: Louie Antuni, referred to also as the Big Guy [...] The king of alky-cookers.
at alky-cooker (n.) under alky, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo for Satan (1949) 123: It may be a bender.
at bender, n.3
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 58: Two buzzes came over the wire.
at buzz, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 213: It could earn me a barrel of cement for my legs and the Drainage Canal for a tomb.
at cement kimono (n.) under cement, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 49: I talked to that crummy landlady and her cheap-john roomers.
at cheap john, n.2
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 122: You got his Chevvy coupe out there?
at Chevvy, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo for Satan (1949) 58: I had muffed one by not hanging onto Lola North until I had chiseled a few facts out of her.
at chisel, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 43: He was Louie Antuni’s chief chopper back in the bad old days.
at chopper, n.1
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan 24: A deck of nose candy for sale.
at deck, n.4
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 63: It was one of those dinky hunks of ribbon women call hats.
at dinky, adj.1
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 146: It suddenly hit him [...] that he’d been running down a customer and the customer might find out about it.
at run down, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 81: Why, you lousy elbow!
at elbow, n.1
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 167: And grouchy, too!
at grouchy, adj.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 162: A harness cop opened the door.
at harness bull (n.) under harness, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 83: Louie Antuni, referred to also as the Big Guy [...] the prince of horse parlours, the potentate of pimps.
at horse room (n.) under horse, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 199: I sat down again and lighted another cigarette, just for something to do, and went on flapping my jaw.
at flap one’s jaw(s) (v.) under jaw, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 83: [He] had kissed off all raps except [the one] for tax evasion.
at kiss off, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 48: Back in the days when Taylor Street smelled of sour mash [...] so thick around Halstead Street the school kids could get a cheap jag from inhaling the air.
at mash, n.1
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 83: Louie Antuni, referred to also as the Big Guy [...] the potentate of pimps, the nabob of numbers.
at nabob, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo for Satan 24: A deck of nose candy for sale.
at nose candy (n.) under nose, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 59: There was a movie at the Apollo about a prvate eye.
at private eye (n.) under private, adj.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 43: You shoulda seen his puss when I tell him the Chevvy wasn’t the car I wanted.
at puss, n.2
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 78: Roll her, Mac. I unlocked the ignition.
at roll, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 146: Certainly I got a look at it. You think I’d be roosting here if I didn’t.
at roost, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 78: We’ll use your scooter, Mac [...] Where’s she parked?
at scooter, n.2
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 167: I found some brandy [...] and poured a slug into my cup and coffee over that.
at slug, n.1
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 200: Then I got my brainstorm [...] then went tearing out there myself.
at tear out (v.) under tear, v.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 163: Both men died with a toothpick through the heart.
at toothpick, n.
[US] J. Evans Halo For Satan (1949) 76: Put it away, Whitey.
at whitey, n.
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