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 * 125 || bury the hatchet  ||  An American colloquialism meaning to make peace or make a truce, historically originating from Native American -- Iroquois -- tradition to bury weapons in a time of peace. Ironically, Stanley holds a bottle to Blanche as an ostensible peace offering following this line in // Streetcar //, but soon later, Blanche smashes a bottle to make the bottle's broken end a weapon against Stanley.
 * 125 || red-letter  ||  A day or event of significance. Also known as Scarlet Day in academia. Interestingly, in the Disney movie //Aladdin//, Princess Jasmine sings the lyric "...every moment red letter..." in the song 'A Whole New World' referring to her time with Aladdin on the Magic carpet as being extremely special and important. Regarding // Streetcar //, Stanley uses the term to recognize his baby's birthday.  ||
 * 126 || Dallas  ||  A famously rich Southern city that hit an enormously lucrative oil boom a decade before // Streetcar //, was financially successful in high-technology manufacturing enterprises (ie. Texas Instruments) a decade after Streetcar becoming the United States' third largest technology center, and was largely contributive to wartime production -- one of the textbook reasons why the United States came out of the Great Depression -- during the 1940s, Streetcar's approximate time-setting. Blanche's imaginary Dallas gentlemen is therefore not just a regular millionaire, but implicative of big-city enterprise, high-technology, civilized and regal multi-millionaire living.
 * 127 || Mardi Gras  ||  A carnival, an important celebration in Catholic European cultures, consisting of parades, balls, king cake parties, and trinket throwing from krewes. It was brought to New Orleans by the French and established as a tradition before the 1700s. It is generally regarded a very public social event, where women, even in the time-setting of // Streetcar //, are infamously baudy, loud, and immodest. Stanley calling Blanche's dress a Mardi Gras outfit is a derisive remark, possibly reflective of his opinion of her as a loose woman, or her trussed up, queen-like, false behavior.
 * 128 || Western Union  ||  A United States financial and communications company, best known for the transfer of telegrams.  ||
 * 131 || // Maldita sea tu suerte! // || // Damn you're lucky! // in Spanish -- rather coarse language, reflective of the brute, manly poker game and the men that play it.