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Your Broadway and Mine choose

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[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 26 Mar. [synd. col.] Butter and Eggs! Butter and Eggs! / You can’t rate a moll by the shape of her legs.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 15 June [synd. col.] [She] appears in ‘Peggy Ann’ [...] at the Vanderbilt, and after asbestos time, works for La Guinan.
at asbestos time (n.) under asbestos, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 15 June [synd. col.] On the hub’s return one evening he found [etc].
at hubby, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 15 June [synd. col.] A polite but firm warning which told visiting kibitzers that the free list had been suspended and only newspaper men and critics were privileged to frequent the Palace Theatre sans paying.
at kibitzer, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 24 Apr. [synd. col.] [Café owner] Whiteman [...] could murder night owls for disturbing his slumber.
at night owl, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 29 Apr.. [synd. col.] Edna Leedom, the ondblay, went to an opening this week.
at ondblay, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 14 Jan. [synd. col.] Charlie Morrison’s eagle optic caught it last week.
at optic, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 29 Apr. [synd. col.] Hijackers call a big seizure a ‘heavy rumfall’; a raid that flops is a ‘d’ry spell’.
at rumfall, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 26 Mar. [synd. col.] The squawk also states that it wasn’t a mine disaster which occasioned the effusion but the Johnstown Flood!
at squawk, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 14 Jan. [synd. col.] Cute hose on shapely stems.
at stems, n.1
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 26 Mar. [synd. col.] The revue tots [...] who reveal their undraped torsos.
at tot, n.3
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 29 Apr. [synd. col.] Dora Wilson [...] would very much like to know what ‘voom-voom’ means, because Lois (Lipstick) Long was thus referred to here [...] Voom-voom is slanguage for a nice dame.
at vroom, v.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 3 Nov. [synd. col.] Two lads in the agency which handled the copy [...] have been aired.
at air, v.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 16 Dec. [synd. col.] There were some cheers, too, when the last asbestos dropped on the [...] mellow drama.
at asbestos, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 8 Nov. [synd. col.] Negro slang [...] Ask for: Challenge to battle in terms that don’t mean maybe.
at ask for it (v.) under ask, v.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 5 Dec. [synd. col.] They call Miss Manley ‘the ball of fire’ [...] Blond and low down, she is fascinating without being too vulgar.
at ball of fire (n.) under ball, n.1
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 27 Nov. [synd. col.] [The story was] smeared over the front page of every morning paper save the one that had got the beat.
at beat, n.5
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 3 Nov. [synd. col.] Houghton, the Repub [...] nominee, is the biggest blower of the campaign .
at blower, n.2
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 7 Dec. [synd. col.] Those who profess to be ‘in the know’ are being burned up and knocked cold [etc].
at burned up, adj.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 8 Nov. [synd. col.] Negro slang [...] Put it in the chair means to sit down.
at put it in the chair (v.) under chair, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 12 Dec. [synd. col.] It was in one of [the hotel’s] rooms that Arnold Rothstein was laid low with what some [...] say was a piece of a certain 50th Street restaurant’s cheese cake.
at cheesecake, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 3 Nov. [synd. col.] [S]uing for misrepresentation in a burlesk on a ciggie ad.
at ciggie, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 20 Nov. [synd. col.] [S]language [...] in use among musicians. [...] To refer to an instrumentalist as ‘corn-fed’ or ‘tinny’ is to term his jazz interpretations old style or ‘has been’.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 13 Dec. [synd. col.] Tom Cochran [...] says dern it instean of dammit and heck instead of hell.
at darn, v.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 10 Dec. [synd. col.] ‘Who the deuce is that’.
at deuce, the, phr.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 11 Dec. [synd. col.] The women [i.e. club hostesses] are given ‘downs’ by the bartender. A ‘down’ is a Delmonico glass full of ginger ale, but the spender thinks she is drinking likker.
at down, n.3
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 27 Dec. [synd. col.] [T]hose uptown ‘drags’ [should] be called ‘nancy dress balls’.
at drag, n.1
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 20 Nov. [synd. col.] [A]ll concerned will get ‘eppis’ which in Jewish means ‘something’ but [...] on Broadwey it is sarcasm for ‘nothing’.
at eppes, n.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 15 Nov. [synd. col.] [The] paper [...] referred to the femme shaft [...] as a ‘limb’.
at femme, adj.
[US] W. Winchell Your Broadway & Mine 5 Dec. [synd. col.] ‘It seems to me,’ she flip remarked to the authors, ‘that with you guys it’s still all work and no Play’.
at flip, adj.1
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