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[US] R. Chandler letter 20 Sept. in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1997) 179: We didn’t have this cat seventeen years in order for some freeloader to say God forgive him he’d even take a piece about her for his goddam parish magazine.
at freeloader, n.
[US] R. Chandler Raymond Chandler Speaking (1997) 200: There is a lot of magoozlum about blood splashes, but we end up with a very vague idea about how much and how far.
at magoozlum, n.
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