Books I've Read

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Sole frite augourmet aux champignons (pg. 163) -- Babelfish sez: "Plate fried with the gourmet with mushrooms"
Rank is but the guinea stamp (pg. 173) -- Rank is just a label, and not the worth of the man (woman, in this case) under it.
Miss-in-baulk (pg. 176) -- A term from billiards indicating a penalty without loss of turn
Vincente y Blasco What's-his-name (pg. 179) -- Spanish novelist, screenwriter, film director. Blood & Sand was one of his books, but in Spanish, don't cha know?
The local Mont de Piet� (pg. 184) -- in France, a public pawnshop, authorized and controlled by the government, for lending money to the poor at a low rate of interest.
Mais oui, mais ouis, c'est trop fort! (pg. 189) -- Babel Fish sez: Yes, but ouis, it is too strong!
Laudaulette (pg. 211) - Small landau; automobile with a convertible top over the back seat-
Lemon squash (pg. 211) -- A drink made of sweetened fruit juice or fruit-flavored syrup diluted with water. Lemonade?
Charlotte Corday (pg. 240) -- A figure of the French revolution, assasinated Jean-Paul Marat.
Opprobrious (pg. 273) -- Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive:
Encomiums (pg. 280 -- Warm praise, a tribute.
�pris (pg. 287) -- Loving, in love with.
Marie Lloyd (pg. 288) -- English music hall singer with reputation for racy interpetation of lyrics.
Pink 'Un (pg. 325) -- Newspaper supplement, usually sport oriented, printed on pink newsprint.
Laburnum (pg. 325) -- A small tree with yellow flowers, also called "Golden Chain".

billingsgate (pg. Note) -- Foul, abusive language.
lordosis (pg. 5) -- Excessive inward curvature of the spine.
vitiates (pg. 21) -- To reduce the value or impair the quality of.
tocsin (pg. 24) -- An alarm bell or signal.
trucklight (pg. 84) -- The aircraft warning lights on a ship, as far as I can figure out
. dithyrambic (pg. 129) -- A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing. From wild dances to honor the Greek god Dionysus.
Title B inventory (pg. 155) -- Items on a Navy ship valued at less than $1,000 (currently, not sure abou during WWII) each, such as binoculars, stop watches, test equipement.
prisonors-at-large (pg. 162) -- Prisonors who are required to perform their duties but not allowed to leave the ship.
alidade (pg. 303) -- An indicator or a sighting apparatus on a plane table, used in angular measurement.
JBD 640 (pg. 310) -- I cannot find any reference to a radio with this name.
Harold Teen (pg. 448) -- A comic strip about a teenager that ran from 1919 til 1959. It may have originated the word "gedunk".
pink tea (pg. 483) -- Formal afternoon tea usu. marked by a high degree of decorum.

No one minds a touch of the farouche in a new bride. (pg.184) -- Either fierce, wild, or exhibiting withdrawn temperament and shyness coupled with an air of cranky, often sullen fey charm. Sounds like opposites, to me.
Made a cake of myself (pg. 177) -- Seems to be a Regency phrase, can't find a definition, but in context I take it as to do something foolish.
"Gammon", said Lady Sylvia. (pg. 99) -- Are they playing backgammon? Is it a pet name? An ejaculation?
reticule (pg. 90) -- a woman's drawstring bag used especially as a carryall. commonplace book (pg,. 11) -- A kind of notebook, to my mind.

cold lightning...Only hot lightning makes thunder. (pg. 51) -- Cold lightning has a shorter duration than hot, but I'm not finding anything about the lack of thunder.
Leinenkugel (pg. 175) -- A brand of beer from Wisconsin. I read they introduced Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout in 2010, sounds impressive!
chiaroscuro figure (pg. 325) -- Several definitions, I'm going with "the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow".
Eight-letter word for 'Formed of fire or light.' Starts with E, ends with L." (pg. 395) -- Turns out to be empyreal.

A little hay goes in, huge cowpies come out. How does that happen? -- (pg. 415) You can't explain that!