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[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 miss b: What were you called last? jack: On a bob-tail flush.
at bobtail, adj.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 If Stewart gets out of that office, my name’s Dennis.
at one’s name is Dennis under dennis, n.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I’ve got a hunk of those stunts that would give your mind a jag of languicity.
at jag, n.1
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 The beautiful Lady Immerset has given Billy Smith the mitten.
at give someone the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Aren’t I a sweet pill to be writing love stories?
at pill, n.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I’ll mention a few little things you must be posted on.
at posted, adj.1
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 You’re not the whole sketch.
at sketch, n.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I told him to give me a name that would sound like something — and make me solid with the lady.
at solid, adj.
[US] P.G. McLean ‘A Long Shot’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Aren’t I a sweet pill to be writing love stories?
at sweet, adj.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 The only chance for a bow to hit a bunch of joy purchasers here is to bet on the gee-dee-ups then bet the bookies you’ll lose.
at bo, n.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Say, lets have that invalid dope stick yer breathing on?
at dope stick (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Pretty Girl —I wonder has it a chance to win? I doped it all out last night and it seems to me that it can’t lose.
at dope, v.2
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I’m so gone on her that I’m the head nominee for the dotty homestead.
at dotty, adj.
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Well den, I’ll drift.
at drift, v.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 You are the real goods why without you a Royal flush is impossible and besides if I had the message I’d admit you to a front seat and wouldn’t let you buy a ticket.
at goods, n.
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 But you can wink that if I do cash in to-day l won’t mail the saloon mans apologizers any of the green material.
at green money (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 You evaporate the yellow jingles on expensive souse.
at jingle, n.
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Well you dont think I’d be peddling secrets if I owned a mint.
at mint, n.1
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Gee. I loves a muff too.
at muff, n.1
[US] Harry E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 For $50 I’ll slip a wise message in yer mit that will let yer gather enough glitterings ter do der fairy tale stunt and that is ‘retire’ and live happy ever after.
at slip, v.2
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Come on, we are both mixed up in the spooney juice.
at spoony, adj.
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 For $50 I’ll slip a wise message in yer mit that will let yer gather enough glitterings ter do der fairy tale stunt and that is ‘retire’ and live happy ever after.
at wise, adj.
[US] H.E. Lee ‘Tough Luck’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 (Sport sitting [...] holding a ten dollar bill in hand) Gee! It’s a sure tip that my heirs are not going to fight over my fortune, and this X is my limit, it sounds better to say ten times one.
at X, n.2
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Furthermore I got the kale for the cash radiator when the waiter breaks the bad news.
at bad news, n.
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 Why this melodious ballyhoo on the street?
at ballyhoo, n.
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I cough up ten beans to hear Caruso strangle ‘The Bohemian Girl’!
at bean, n.1
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 So that’s why we chirp the merry-merry!
at chirp, v.
[US] Louis Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I can hit up the swell beaneries and assimulate me chuck the same as any other kid-glove boob.
at chuck, n.3
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 A swivel-eyed woman singin’ a howlin’ success.
at swivel-eyed, adj.
[US] L. Chevalier ‘Getting into Society’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I can hit up the swell beaneries and assimulate me chuck the same as any other kid-glove boob.
at hit up, v.
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