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Dawn O’Hara choose

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[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 32: Well, Dawn, you’ve made a beautiful mess of it. A smashed-up wreck at twenty-eight!
at beautiful, adj.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 64: What utter blither!
at blither, n.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 243: The kid wears spectacles and a Norfolk suit [...] We’re saving him until you get back, if the kids in the alley don’t chew him up before that time.
at chew out, v.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 70: You can’t expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.
at doodad, n.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 33: D’you mean to tell me that you woke me [...] to make me drink that goo? What is it, anyway, I’ll bet it’s another egg-nog.
at goo, n.1
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 41: Seven years of newspaper grind have taught me the fallacy of trying to write by the inspiration method.
at grind, n.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 105: I’m some rejoiced m’self, old top.
at old top, n.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 90: Mother says she was scared green.
at scared green (adj.) under scare, v.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 43: The hero is a milk-and-water sissy, without a vital spark in him.
at sissy, n.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 27: No more slushy Sunday specials! No more teary tales!
at slushy, adj.
[US] E. Ferber Dawn O’Hara (1925) 88: The [...] ingenuity and finesse, and stick-to-it-iveness that he expends in prying a single story out of some willing victim.
at stick-to-it-iveness (n.) under stick to, v.
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