Vulgar words in Kid Scanlan (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
bonehead x 1
boob x 30
jimmy x 1
make love x 4
            
scrap x 1
            

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That's as far as the thing went, just two short frames, but more real scrappin' was had in them few minutes than Europe will see if Ireland busts loose!

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They went at each other like peeved wildcats and the bell at the end of the first round only seemed to annoy 'em--they had to be jimmied apart.

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Some guy in a new dress suit is makin' love to a dame, while another fellow stands in front of them and says at the top of his voice, "Remember now, you're madly in love with her, but father detests the sight of your face.

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"I maka mistake!" he grabs hold of his head again and groans, "Gotta bunch bonehead here this morning," he goes on, noddin' to 'em.

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"Why, you ignorant ass!" sneers De Vronde, out loud, so's Miss Vincent can hear him.

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Many a guy that's a regular fellow at a hundred a month, becomes a boob at a hundred a week.

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We come to the top of a hill and as we start down the other side the prize boob of the county is waterin' the pavement around his real estate.

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I'll bet that boob mechanic left that in there when he started us off at the garage."

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CHAPTER III PLEASURE ISLAND Speakin' of boobs, as people will, did you ever figure what would happen if the production of 'em would suddenly cease?

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In the first place, there wouldn't have been no ex-Land of the Rave and Home of the Spree, if Queen Isabella hadn't been boob enough to fall for Columbus's stuff, about would she stake him and his gang of rough and readys to a couple of ferryboats and they'd go out and bring back Chicago.

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The guy that invented the airship was doped out as a boob until the thing begin to fly, the bird that turned out the first steamboat was called a potterin' old simp and let him alone and he'd kill himself--and that's the way it goes.

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That's the boob!

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The boob is the guy that takes all the chances and makes it possible for old Kid World to keep goin' forward instead of standin' still.

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Any burg that's got a couple of sure enough eighteen-carat boobs in it, known to the trade as suckers, has got a chance.

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So the next time somebody calls you a big boob, don't get sore--thank him.

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Gimme ten boobs in back of me and I'll take a town, because they'll take a chance.

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Me for the boobs!

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Kid Scanlan was a boob.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,160   ~   ~   ~

He was a great battler, a regular fellow and all like that, but he was a boob just the same.

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Then he props himself up with the pillows and begins, "I went over there to-night and them boobs was havin' a racket of some kind, I guess, because all the automobiles in the West was lined up outside the doors of the club.

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Well, I thinks, I'll show them boobs somethin' before I take the air--I can pull that stuff _myself_!

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"Looka thisa bigga boob, Miss Vincent!"

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He don't know if grease paint is to put on your face or to seal letters with, he's got the same faculty of expression on that soft putty map of his as an ox has, he makes love like a wax dummy and he come out to play 'As You Like It' in a dress suit!

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The big boob stands there lookin' at her and the chance of a couple of lifetimes is slippin' away.

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Anyhow, I see this boob standin' there, and I says to myself, here's a chance to pull a little Eyetalian.

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Personally, I think them martyrs was a lot of boobs.

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"Look at the big, ignorant boob now!" he howls.

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Don't you think I would if I could, you boob?"

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I tells him, noddin' to the buildin' where the boilermakers was havin' a field day, "but--" "Sufferin' salmon, what boobs!" he interrupts me.

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If them boobs see me, I'll have to show 'em all over the plant!

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He was tall and lanky, dressed all in black like the pallbearer the undertaker furnishes, and the saddest-lookin' boob I ever seen in my life!

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The sad-lookin' boob was Professor Pietro Parducci, the well known medium.

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I'd rather face a nervous wildcat than face a angry boob!

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"You don't expect a dame like that to make love to a guy that cleans De Vronde's shoes, do you?"

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"No!--I don't want her to make love to him.

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She's made an ass of you--she and that Duke person!

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"That big boob has been here fifteen minutes tellin' me all he was gonna do for me as soon as he found it in the book!

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But this time a tall, solemn-lookin' guy breezes into the room and stares at me and the Kid with the same warm friendliness that a motorcycle cop regards a boob tryin' out a new auto.

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And then, poor boob--I looked down at the hand I didn't have, wonderin' why she didn't answer me--and saw the answer on one finger.

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