strong box a heavily made box or safe for storing valuables.
scraggy-looking lean; bony; skinny.
Salvation Army an international organization on semi-military lines, founded in England by William Booth in 1865 for religious and philanthropic purposes among the very poor.
Bloomingdale's a popular, Manhattan-based department store.
storm shoes all-weather boots.
Holland Tunnel a passageway connecting lower Manhattan with Jersey City, New Jersey, beneath the Hudson River.
double-decker bus a bus with an upper deck or floor.
carrousel a merry-go-round with various wooden or metal animals, especially ponies, serving as seats that go up and down.
affected behaving in an artificial way to impress people.
