The 570 occurrences of boob
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He told us what happened impersonally as one who is listening to another man's story in his own mouth A fat man can't wear the modern American army uniform without looking like a sack of meal He wore a scarlet coat of unimaginable vividness, a cutaway coat of glaring scarlet broadcloth We thought he might be testing us out as potential spies And we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball "Well now, sir, you wouldn't be wearing those brown shoes to Lord Bryce's tea, would you, Mr. White?"
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Whenever we went to an English dinner, in our tails, some English ladyship through a lorgnette or a spyglass of some kind gave us the once-over with the rough blade of her social disapproval and we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball.
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[Illustration: And we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball] "That's your allowance, sir," said the waitress, and money would buy no more.
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"Don't fall fen him, yen boob!" sung out the other.
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"You poor boob," was the cheerful greeting as it swung wide, "What brings you out here?
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As Cleary went up the stairway to renew the ginger of the Third Degree for the two prisoners, he smiled to himself, and muttered: "The guy ain't such a boob as he looks: he's just a high-class nut.
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He and Captain Kendall were close friends, and they went over to that photograph shop, had their pictures taken and swapped--and like a poor, helpless, luckless boob I had to come along and buy the sample picture the photographer hung in his case.
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"Hello, you big, sulky boob!"
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During all the time--an hour or more--that I had been away on the wings of imagination, these poor boobs had been howling and whooping outside the theatre, keeping the crowds away, and incidentally working themselves into a fury!
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"A fine set of boobs," I began-- "Boobs, nothing!" broke in the other.
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"It's plain that you're a boob," he said.
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It was an awkward situation, because apparently these policemen hadn't been told that Peter was a spy; the boobs thought they were getting a real dynamiter!
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The only trouble was, there were so few detectives you could trust; they were nearly all scoundrels, and if they weren't scoundrels, it was because they didn't have sense enough to be--they were boobs, and any Red could see thru them in five minutes.
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"All right," Guffey said, "I'll read you this, and you can see just where you stand, and just how many kinds of a boob you are."
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Yes, there was no doubt about it, he was a boob where women were concerned!
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"You boob!" he said.
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"When I think how I let a skinny, half-witted boob like you walk right into a clinch with me, and me holdin' a gun, and weighin' forty pounds more than you do, I--Can you hear what I'm saying?"
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You're just the kind of boob that would do a thing like that."
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"As I was sayin'," he resumed, "if we could only put some kind of a curb on these here tender-hearted boobs--and boobesses--the world would be a much better place to live in.
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"If I swore on a stack of bibles I let a boob like you take it away from me, they'd send me to Matteawan, and God knows,--" "Come in!" called out Mr. Yollop.
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The note was written and despatched in care of the glowering bailiff, who, it seems, had an engagement to go to the movies that evening and couldn't believe his ears when he ascertained that the boobs had not yet agreed upon a verdict in what he regarded as the clearest case that had ever come under his notice.
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I want to get a good square peep at a man who has the means to go somewhere else and yet is boob enough to come to this gosh-awful place of his own free will and accord.
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Such words as "slob," "fat-head," "boob" or "you poor nut" never found their way outside the sacred precincts of the theatre.
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"Free amusements," thought Smith, "to keep the boobs happy."
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He was not satisfied to leave the honors with this "snip of an American girl," and evolved a plan of verbal assault which was to bring the provincial upstart to her senses, only to discover that she had a dozen defenses for each attack, and to find himself, for two consecutive, disconcerting minutes, wondering if perchance he might be a "boob."
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"He's got a lot to do with it, you blithering boob."
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No one stops there but clothing salesmen and boobs who still think it's Chicago's leading hotel.
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Along come a lot of boobs who never use a hotel the year around except to loaf in the lobby, and wear out the leather chairs, and use up the matches and toothpicks and get the baseball returns, and immediately you turn away a traveling man who uses a three-dollar-a-day room, with a sample room downstairs for his stuff, who tips every porter and bell-boy in the place, asks for no favors, and who, if you give him a half-way decent cup of coffee for breakfast, will fall in love with the place and boom it all over the country.
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The result is you turn out an undeveloped or over-developed boob, too proud to work and not able to take a real man's place in the world because he hasn't been taught how.
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And in the course of time he marries a female boob who has been raised according to the same general specifications, and nine times out of ten she's too refined to be bothered with a family.
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"You aren't the only boob in the shipping business.
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"And I'm amazed that you should consider me boob enough to consider seriously buying the same steamer outright!
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I wonder what the old boob meant by that rotten slam at my people."
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You think that nothing but boobs and corn-fed squaws come from Indiana, but if you hang around long enough you'll find you're mistaken.
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Of course, there are boobs like me and Doc Simpson and Tintype Hatch who get up to Chicago once every three or four years and have to sew our return trip tickets inside our belly-bands so's we can be sure of getting back home after Chicago gets through admiring us, but now since prohibition has come in I don't know but what we're as bright and clever as anybody else.
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"Look at those boobs," mocked Bart.
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It was a boob stunt for me to do."
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"Perhaps it was," admitted Bart with a grin, "though I've been calling myself all sorts of a boob ever since the thing happened."
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I'm off boobs for life.
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Don't be a boob.
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Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?
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"But that long boob, that Pilkington... he would never stand for my handing you one and a half per cent."
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Both of them, hand in hand, or he alone, the chump, the boob, the easy mark who got this sort of thing wished on him!
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But of course these boobs pretended like they thought I meant it all and was love sick or something and they hollered like a bunch of Indians and clapped and razed he--ll.
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A stage director, setting a comedy scene with that most ancient of jests, the gawking of boobs at some new sight, could hardly have improved on this tableau.
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I don't know how he'd get acquainted with a boob like this."
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My man is to get his helmet, '_avec le grand panache_,' and his long gray-blue military cape, and with my riding boots and spurs and a sword, I shall be able to fool those boobs out there; that is, if they don't throw on me one of those damned spot lights.
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"S-s-shut up, y-y-you big b-b-boob," he finally managed to get out, in an infuriated tone.
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"I may be a boob, but I can talk straight, anyway," replied the amateur.
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"I was just pitying," replied Jimmy, "the poor boobs who didn't see it."
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Then he gave me a message to write home to his mother and his sweetheart, and I, like a great big boob, cried like a baby.
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Alkali Ike started in and aimed at the right of the line of bottles instead of the left, and the poor boob behind the scenes started breaking the bottles on the left, and then the box-holders turned loose; but outside of this little fiasco the performance was a huge success, and we decided to run it for a week.
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Damn it, I never saw such an absolute boob as she was.
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I told her what a liar I was and how all the stuff I pulled from the auction stand was the bunk and how she was a boob for falling for it.
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"Aw, he's a boob.
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"No, ye slant-eared boob!" roared the assailant.
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"They're a pair of half-smart, half-simple boobs," decided Danes, as he smoked a cigar alone after dinner.
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"Why, you big blue boob," he began abruptly with a sense of pleasant refreshment better than drink, "You great heaving purple ice wagon--" and then he was stopped abruptly for the policeman was taking the necessary breath away.
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The popular college remedy for disprized love had always been an instantaneous mingling of conflicting alcohols--calling a large policeman a big blue boob seemed to produce the same desired result of bringing one to one's senses by first taking one completely out of them without the revolving stomach and fuzzed mind of the first instance.
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"Yes--yes--oh it wasn't anything--I could explain in five seconds if I saw her--it was all a misunderstanding--I called the policeman a boob but I didn't mean it--I don't see yet why he took offence--it was just--" He was stifling inside the airless booth--he trickled all over.
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"I thought you were the king of boobs--but, boy, I'm with you to wherever you want to go--if my money will last that far!"
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Reuben Boob asks: For some time past I have been calling upon a young lady friend at her house evenings and going out with her to friends' nights.
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Brave enough when it comes to exploiting boobs like you and the other tramps and low lives,... but when he bucks up against a chap that's all there, hey?
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Fillmore Street was not the hunting ground of rich men; but men with a night's money came there, and many "boobs" from the country.
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Of course they're fools, just poor boobs, to think they can win out that way, but you can't blame 'em.
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What a lot of boobs!
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Call upon them often, and you will learn one of the blessedest things about life, the companionship of boobs.
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Why, you poor boob, don't you think I know you!
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I'll never forget that boob.
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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charlie Kirschner and the PG Distributed Proofreaders [Illustration: HE CAPERED THROUGH THE MELODY OF DVORÀK'S, WHICH IS AS IRONIC AS A GRINNING MASK] HUMORESQUE A LAUGH ON LIFE WITH A TEAR BEHIND IT By FANNIE HURST 1920 CONTENTS HUMORESQUE OATS FOR THE WOMAN A PETAL ON THE CURRENT WHITE GOODS "HEADS" A BOOB SPELLED BACKWARD EVEN AS YOU AND I THE WRONG PEW HUMORESQUE On either side of the Bowery, which cuts through like a drain to catch its sewage, Every Man's Land, a reeking march of humanity and humidity, steams with the excrement of seventeen languages, flung in _patois_ from tenement windows, fire escapes, curbs, stoops, and cellars whose walls are terrible and spongy with fungi.
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It prolonged for those on shore the contour of the line of faces above each deck; it picked points of light from off everywhere--off smokestacks and polished railings, off plate-glass and brass-bound port-holes and even down the ship's flank, to where gilt letters spelled out shiningly: "_LUSITANIA._" A BOOB SPELLED BACKWARD How difficult it is to think of great lives in terms of the small mosaics that go to make up the pattern of every man's day-by-day--the too tepid shaving-water; the badly laundered shirt-front; the three-minute egg; the too-short fourth leg of the table; the draught on the neck; the bad pen; the neighboring rooster; the misplaced key; the slipping chest-protector.
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Don't be a boob coming and going, Sam; you're one now not to see things and you'll be another one spelled backward if you don't help yourself to your chance when it comes.
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Why--I'd rather be a thousand boobs than take my mother's heart and tear it to pieces."
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I'd be a, sweet boob, wouldn't I, to cut my pocket-book in two?
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"You and a boob country quack of a doctor ain't going to own my soul.
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No quack boob is going to own my soul."
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I know my constitution better than a quack country boob does.
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Because a lot of the boobs around here have put their spare cash in the safe for safekeeping!"
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Say, who d'you think I am, a boob?"
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"Why, you poor boob," groaned Denver, "don't you know she's the old dame that's trying to get you mobbed?"
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"With that bunch of boobs a fellow's got a swell chance to get anywheres."
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"The poor exemption boobs are already running for doctors' certificates and marriage licenses, but even if they get by with it--and it is ninety-nine to one they won't--they can't run away from their own degradation and shame."
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He was nearly crazy when they caught him at it--thought he could be put in jail--he forgot, the poor boob ... who he was working for....
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"And sting all the boobs?" grinned Murtha not unsympathetically.
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In which Sabrina rushes on the scene and begins to discourse breathlessly on theatrical conditions, boobs that send poetry for presents, the tribulations of hunting employment, and the outlook for a New Year's dinner.
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You see it was this way: She had a boob on her staff who was paying her his devoted attention.
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Do you think I am a boob?
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But it is a good thing to have a bank account to flash, so that the boob will think he will get a comeback if he does lose.
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"The conceited yen some of these boobs have in thinking that a fluff has nothing else to do but sit in some cafe and hold hands until daylight.
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"Wilbur was in the smoking room the other evening and got to talking with what he thought were a couple of boobs, but come to find out they were wise guys.
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Wilbur and two other boobs fall for the bunk and they open up.
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"These two boobs are dirty with the evergreen, and Wilbur's got the wise guys so leary for fear he will tip his mitt and they naturally slip him a big one every time they get a chance.
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C'est idiot de faire comme ça l'oiseau.... Allez-vous-en, louffier_.... Tell the boob to go away.
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, boob [Vulg.]
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, boob [Vulg.]
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bonze: - clergy 996 N. boo: - disrespect 929 N. boob: - convexity 250 N. booby: - fool 501 N. boodle: - giving 784 N. book exercise: - teaching 537 N. book learning: - book 593 N. - knowledge 490 N. book madness: - knowledge 490 N. book of fate: - necessity 601 N. Book of Mormon: - pseudo-revelation 986 N. book: - teaching 537 V. - record 551 V. - list 86 N. - accounts 811 V. bookcase: - receptacle 191 N. booked: - death 360 Adj.
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"Why, that'll be all right, you poor boob," returned the kindly Mayme.
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"Why grow up a Boob," wrote the philosophic Mayme, "when the lil old world is full of wise guys just aking to spill their wiseness?"
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He must of looked a sight, the poor boob.