Crossword-Solution: SKIDDOO 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Would it be better that they should take to open mendicancy, or try to win the soft American heart with such acquired slang as “Skiddoo to twenty-three”? One who had no postal-cards had English enough to say he would go away for a penny; it was his price, and I did not see how he could take less; when he was reproached by a citizen of uncommon austerity for his shameless annoyance of strangers, I could not see that he looked abashed--in fact, he went away singing.

Why don't you fire 'em bodily; tell 'em their number is 23--skiddoo! Aren't you the Sublime Porte--the court of last resort--the big boss--over here?" Ford pulled his horse down to a walk.

SKIDDOO CHAPTER I JOHN HENRY ON UPPER BERTHS I was down on the card to make a quick jump to Pittsburg a few nights ago, and I'm a lemon if I didn't draw an upper berth in the sleeping car thing! Say! I'll be one of a party of six to go before Congress and tell all I know about an upper berth.

The trouble with Bunch is that his home folks have swelled his chest to such an extent by petting his adjectives that he thinks he has Shakespeare on a hot skiddoo for the sand dunes, and when it comes to that poetry thing he thinks he can make Hank Longfellow beat it up a tree.

Anxiously he stepped over to the better light near the window and read: "DEAR TOM: "Here I am, and it's twenty-three for mine." (Tom paused in suspense at this ominous phrase.) "My registration card is numbered twenty-three, so I'm the only original skiddoo soldier--take it from your Uncle Dudley.