Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

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April 30th 2009

Slang from the 20’s

Reblogged from waksays|

waksays:

Applesauce- an expletive same as horsefeathers, As in “Ah applesauce!”

Bearcat - a hot-blooded or fiery girl

Cash or check? - Do you kiss now or later?

Darb - An excellent person or thing (as in “the Darb” - a person with money who can be relied on to pay the check)

Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol

“Now you’re on the trolley!” - Now you’ve got it, now you’re right!

Ossified - a drunk person

Spifflicated - Drunk. The same as canned, corked, tanked, primed, scrooched, jazzed, zozzled, plastered, owled, embalmed, lit, potted, ossified or fried to the hat

Lots, lots more here.

I want to say to there.

Posted at 12:52pm.

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