Vulgar words in The Job - An American Novel (Page 1)

This book at a glance

boob x 3
cuss x 1
damaged goods x 1
damn x 7
fag x 2
            
hussy x 2
make love x 4
white trash x 3
            

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Here, no galleon breasts the sky-line; no explorer in evening clothes makes love to an heiress.

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In her great surge of emotion, she noticed these posturing hussies far less than she did a little volume of Rosetti, or the overshoes whose worn toes suddenly revealed to her that Walter Babson, the editor, was not rich--was not, perhaps, so very much better paid than herself.

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"Why, you look as fagged as I feel," he said.

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"Oh, damn!" he groaned.

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"Why!" she gasped, "the little man is trying to make love to me!"

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"Say, you certainly made a sight out of yourself--and out of me--leaving me sitting there with the waiter laughing his boob head off at me.

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He never cursed; he was an ecclesiastical believer that one of the chief aims of man is to keep from saying those mystic words "hell" and "damn"; but he could make "darn it" and "why in tunket" sound as profane as a gambling-den....

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But she could never get herself to keep up the earnest clowning of bedroom calisthenics; gymnasiums were either reekingly crowded or too expensive--and even to think of undressing and dressing for a gymnasium demanded more initiative than was left in her fagged organism.

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Una had, from books and newspapers and Walter Babson, learned that there were such things as socialists and earnest pessimists, and the race sketchily called "Bohemians"--writers and artists and social workers, who drank claret and made love and talked about the free theater, all on behalf of the brotherhood of man.

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Once a month they met at what they called "punch lunches," and listened to electrifying addresses by Mr. S. Herbert Ross or some other inspirer, and turned fresh, excited eyes on one another, and vowed to adhere to the true faith of Pemberton's, and not waste their evenings in making love, or reading fiction, or hearing music, but to read diligently about soap and syrups and window displays, and to keep firmly before them the vision of fifteen thousand dollars a year.

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The most snuffle-nosed little mailing-girl on the office floor felt superior to all of the factory workers, even the foremen, quite as negro house-servants look down on poor white trash.

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I lost most of that in a little flyer on stocks--thought I'd make a killing, and got turned into lamb-chops; tried to recoup my losses on that damn flying-machine, passenger-carrying game that that ---- ---- ---- ---- let me in for.

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He was a comical cuss, eh?

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He didn't, he said, mind her losing his "good, hard-earned money," but he "hated to see Eddie Schwirtz's own wife more of a boob than Mrs. Jock Sanderson, who's a regular guy; plays poker like a man."

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There's no chance for a man to-day--these damn capitalists got everything lashed down.

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These fellas are just trying to show how sensational they can be, t' say nothing of talking like they was so damn superior to the rest of us.

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In deference to Mr. Schwirtz's demands on the novelists, one could scarce even suggest the most dreadful scene in Una's life, lest it be supposed that other women really are subject to such horror, or that the statistics regarding immoral diseases really mean anything in households such as we ourselves know.... She had reason to suppose that her husband was damaged goods.

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Doubtless she learned more about the mastery of people from them, however, than from the sighing, country-bred hotel women of whom she was more fond; for the cheerful hussies had learned to make the most of their shoddy lives.

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Good-looking, but regular poor white trash.

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_Somebody_ in this family has got to economize!--while you sit here cool and comfortable; not a thing on your mind but your hair; not a thing to worry about except thinking how damn superior you are to your husband!

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I'm fair game for everybody that's looking for a nice, soft, easy, safe boob to kick!

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She briefly, but thoroughly, depicted him as alcohol-soaked, poor white trash.

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"You used to be plenty glad to go to poker parties and leg-shows with me, when I wanted to, but since you've taken to earning your living again you've become so ip-de-dee and independent that when I even suggest rushing a growler of beer you scowl at me, and as good as say you're too damn almighty good for Eddie Schwirtz's low-brow amusements.

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