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[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 107: But ye gobs [sic] and little fishes! We was to learn the real truth about why a car is called a boat!
at ye gods (and little fishes)!, excl.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 129: I, Marie La Tour, the best-dressed woman on the silver sheet, was the rag bag of the party!
at rag bag, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 98: You can begin, if you let your bean work, to get some notion of the breadth of our civilization.
at bean, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 69: ‘Why didn’t you beat it?’.
at beat it, v.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 16: I went out of the private office and through the crowd of [...] would-be picture stars who were waiting on the mourners’ bench.
at mourner’s bench, n.
[US] N.W. Putnam West Broadway 12: That’s the bird! Well-known English playwright, [...] he’s been dead a long time, so there’s no copyright.
at bird, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 97: ‘Say, you're a funny bird!’ he says.
at bird, n.1
[US] N.W. Putnam West Broadway 13: ‘How’s that for an idea, eh?’ ‘Al, [...] it’s a bird, and as you say, a wonderful chance for me’.
at bird, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 107: But ye gobs [sic] and little fishes! We was to learn the real truth about why a car is called a boat!
at boat, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 215: They are absolutely friendly except when the boneheaded Government sends soldiers in to take their children away to school by force.
at boneheaded, adj.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 233: I thought with [...] pride and superiority of the poor boobs that would fall for that ride to-morrow.
at boob, n.2
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 47: ‘I heard a very curious thing about Westman this morning. It seems he’s disappeared.’ [...] ‘I bet the bulls are after him’.
at bull, n.5
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 17: I got to Fifth [Avenue] with all the handsome cars and bum old taxis crawling on it.
at bum, adj.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 56: If she chose to drive to the coast in a flivver and dress like a bum that was her own business.
at bum, n.3
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 33: ‘Don’t you think all this talk of the Soviet spreading over the world is more or less the bunk?’.
at bunk, n.2
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 41: ‘What do you say if we take the old bus and drive the whole way!’.
at bus, n.2
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 103: ‘I did think of it, but I canned the thought’.
at can, v.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 222: ‘So pleased to meet you!’ says this blond cat. ‘I think your husband is such a nice man!’.
at cat, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 126: I’ll be dog-goned if in three minutes we wasn’t chewing the rag like old friends.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 123: I personally myself used to be half convinced that Indians [on stage] was mostly blond chickens with feathers on their heads and very little else except the jewels their rich uncle had give them.
at chicken, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 168: ‘Believe me, crossing this man's country is no hardship, but it's no cinch, neither!’.
at cinch, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 78: We ate and beat it, and done our best getting out of the Quaker City.
at Quaker City, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 43: The corrupt police had the nerve to capture these poor friends of the common people and had them in the cooler.
at cooler, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 79: A coon waiter who said thank you for a four-bit tip.
at coon, adj.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 39: ‘I hit him because he says motion-picture actors was cooties’.
at cootie, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 96: I saw cootie coops and spit curls on the chickens [...] and heard the latest jazz on the drug-store records.
at cootie-coops (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 75: ‘Thanks, cutie [...] Say, isn’t this fun’.
at cutie, n.1
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 142: ’Say, mister, we don't know a darn thing about this stuff. Would you kindly wise us up as to the names of some of it!’.
at darn, adj.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 21: I got to jazz up my mind on the kid's account — get some general culture and everything [...] so’s he won’t think I’m a dead one.
at dead one, n.
[US] N. Putnam West Broadway 123: A few jazzy stanzas about down the Mississippi where we all go dippy underneath the ragtime moon.
at dippy, adj.
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