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Torchy, Private Sec. 26: Who could talk business to a smart Alec like that!at smart aleck, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 26: Who could talk business to a smart Alec like that! Torchy, Private Sec. 132: Them back-number costumes of hers looked odd enough mixed in with all the harem effects and wired-neck ruffs.at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 178: From a hasty glimpse at the hard-boiled lid and the man’s collar [...] I thought it was some chappy.at hard-boiled hat (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
Torchy, Private Sec. 284: Say, how about it, Miss Hampton? Suppose he hadn’t boobed it this way.at boob, v.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 229: One of the boomers [...] was struck with the brilliant idea that he could make use of my peculiar talents in making known the coming glories of the new South.at boomer, n.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 130: ‘You noticed her, didn’t you, Torchy?’ ‘The mouth breather? [...] That’s Ruby. Nobody home, and the front door left open.’.at mouth-breather, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 5: ‘Is she in, Cephas?’ says I to the brunette Jamaican [...] who juggles the elevator.at brunette, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 70: He inspects the cacklers. And, believe me, they was the fanciest poultry specimens I’d ever seen.at cackler, n.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 123: Awfully bad case I had, you know. And now [...] I suppose I’d best see her mother.at case, n.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 27: It must have been sort of hopeless at the start, inoculatin’ a cauliflower like mine with higher chemistry.at cauliflower, n.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 17: I’m left feelin’ all warmed up and chirky.at chirk, adj.
Torchy, Private Sec. 293: ‘You—er—get that, I trust, Torchy?’ ‘Clear as mush.’.at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 166: And if you can wish back that twenty thousand, I’ll put a quick crimp in this prosecution.at put a crimp in(to) (v.) under crimp, n.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 5: All the satisfaction I get is a message [...] that ‘Miss Hemmingway is otherwise engaged.’ Wouldn’t that crust you?at wouldn’t that crust you under crust, v.
Torchy, Private Sec. 316: The rest of us sits around like cheap deadheads that had been let in on passes.at deadhead, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 165: He’s had the third degree good and strong [...] He won’t squeal.at third degree, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 282: Course it was a dippy play of his, luggin’ me along.at dippy, adj.
Torchy, Private Sec. 37: I was lookin’ for plenty of high-speed domework.at domework (n.) under dome, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 260: I locates the export notes first stab; but the dope sticks ain’t in sight.at dope stick (n.) under dope, n.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 129: I’m beginnin’ to suspicion I ain’t such a human-nature dope artist as I thought, for I’ve made at least three fruity forecasts on Ruby, and the returns are still comin’ in.at dope artist (n.) under dope, n.3
Torchy, Private Sec. 209: Listened like you was in Dutch for a minute or so there.at in Dutch under Dutch, n.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 35: I’d picked out old D. K. Rutgers, the worst fish-face in the bunch.at fish-face, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 152: Only one of them cheap flat-foots. Don’t mind him.at flatfoot, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 67: Give him my regards when you get back [...] and tell him Torchy says he’s a flivver.at flivver, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 159: One of the flossiest, foxiest widows in New York.at foxy, adj.1
Torchy, Private Sec. 28: ‘I fear Mr. Briscoe thinks unfavorably of it.’ ‘Then he’s fruity in the pan.’.at fruity, adj.2
Torchy, Private Sec. 21: Just because I’m behind the ground glass [...] don’t make me a sacred being, or you a lobbygow.at lobby-gow, n.
Torchy, Private Sec. 207: As I was well heeled with work of my own I didn’t even glance up.at heeled, adj.
Torchy, Private Sec. 130: That’s Ruby. Nobody home, and the front door left open.at nobody home, phr.
Torchy, Private Sec. 225: It’s no trick at all to go into the average Rube village [...] and get ’em thrilled with the notion of being connected by trolley with Jaytown.at jay town (n.) under jay, n.1
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