Crossword-Solution: GEEZER 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The usual ones around the depot rubbered at us, and I hearn one geezer say to another: "See that big feller there? He was through here a year or two ago selling patent medicine." "You don't say so!" says the other one, like it was something important, like a president or a circus had come, and his eyes a-bugging out.

They's times when every geezer playin' wins, as I know, for I've sat in in such games an' saw more'n one bank busted.

What was the “game” of this big “geezer” who was carrying him off? Altruism would have been McGuire’s last guess.

The general drew himself up, and said, in his dramatic way, “The army commander salutes the honored dead!” And the drunken private put his head from under the blanket and asked, “What's the old geezer a-sayin' of?” That story may have been invented in a battalion mess, but it went through the army affixed to the name of Hunter Weston, and seemed to fit him.

There was a current superstition about the place to the effect that the bathroom and the water supply might on occasion be heated with a device known in the vernacular as a geezer.