1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 The citizen with her was boiled to the scalp.at boiled, adj.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 Jeepers could have bumped off Drupe. The bosco had a reason.at bosco, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 Well, well [...] citizens like Clarence should not get spiffed.at citizen, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 He could have waylaid Drupe and dusted him off.at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 You’re under arrest [...] You’re goin’ to the icebox.at icebox, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 ‘Oh ye-e-e-a-a-a-ah? Well, here’s what I’ll do, you—’ Kerwhop!at kerwhop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 Maybe Mr. Drupe took it on the lam somewhere to get his nerves ironed out.at take it on the lam (v.) under lam, n.1
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 He hated orders like a bunion-puppied waiter who has spent ten years juggling trays in a beanery.at puppies, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 Soon thereafter he hopped a subterranean rattler uptown.at rattler, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 He was scalded all right, that playboy.at scalded, adj.2
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 Mrs. Drupe is getting very impatient as she cannot collect life insurance on Corny until they find his shell.at shell, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 I am glad to see that some of the slewfoots have a fragment of brain.at slewfoot, n.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 She was a very spiffy looking number that Willie had bumped into.at spiffy, adj.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. [ 🌐 Oh, we’ll make him squawk [...] He’ll tell us where Drupe is, or else—.at squawk, v.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ in Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 He was swacked and he handed me his card—or that was what he thought.at swacked (up), adj.
1938 J. Archibald ‘Bird Cagey’ Popular Detective Jan. 🌐 I got the guy who bumped off Drupe now. We’ll sweat him dry an’ make him tell where he buried the remains.at sweat, v.2
1939 J. Archibald ‘Dumb is the Word for Willie’ in Popular Detective Aug. 🌐 Willie [...] ordered a ham-and-egg sandwich. ‘Stick a grunt and a cackleberry between the sheets, Mike!’ the counterman yodeled.at cackleberry (n.) under cackle, n.
1939 J. Archibald ‘Killer’s Heel’ Popular Detective June 🌐 Gabriel and his torch came out and tripped towards a kiosk.at torch, n.
1939 J. Archibald ‘Dumb is the Word for Willie’ in Popular Detective Aug. 🌐 ‘Six hamburgers, buddy, wit’ plenty of onion, to go out.’ ‘Right. Mike! Stuff the cow-w-w inta six buns with violets! Ship ’em!’.at violet, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 With those airedales you could clean up stamping out grass fires.at airedale, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘No PLace Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 If you’re working your way through college, don’t try to put the bee on me.at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 The Gs were after a firm down on Pearl Street for evading the bee that Uncle Sam puts on citizens.at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 Gendarmes grabbed Satchelfoot just as he was about to do a Brodie off the Queensboro Bridge.at do a Brodie (v.) under brodie, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 I am desperate, and my canary is waiting over at the tavern.at canary, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No PLace Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 The ancient wardrobe that leaned against the wall like a canned-heat drunk.at canned heat, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 Here I was getting warm on that bank messenger murder and they cool me off like that.at cool off, v.2
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 Willie got up to light the gas. His fingers were on the little dingus that turns the illuminating vapor on.at dingus, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 They had tapped the currency carrier over the noodle with a hard object [...] The criminal character who handled the duster had been just a little too energetic.at duster, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 The Gs were after a firm down on Pearl Street for evading the bee that Uncle Sam puts on citizens.at G-man (n.) under G, adj.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 He got into his jaloppy and drove away.at jalopy, n.