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in Variety 24 Mar. 8: The hams that can’t make it anywhere think it’s a walkover in vaudeville [HDAS].at make it, v.
in Variety 24 Mar. 8: The hams that can’t make it anywhere think it’s a walkover in vaudeville [HDAS]. in Variety 10 Sept. 20: Her ‘cooch’ [...] is also suggestive.at cooch, n.
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Variety 6 Aug. 13: It is not good policy to have the Salvationist [played as] a ‘nance’ [OED].at nance, n.
Variety 16 Sept. 8/2: The organization of vaudeville agents [...] would [...] become known as ‘theatrical brokers’... Many agents familiarly known as the ‘A. K.'s’ (alter kokers)..would be classed by themselves.at alter kacker, n.
Variety [editorial] 28 Mar. in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951) n.p.: If the big timers occupy so large a quantity of their wakeful moments in doping out schemes against Variety, how is it possible for them to give proper attention to the bills?at big-timer (n.) under big time, n.1
Variety [editorial] 28 Mar. in Show Biz from Vaude to Video (1951) n.p.: Within the past two weeks three bigtime managers have had to advertise in Variety without having their names in the advertisement.at big-time, adj.
Variety 29 Oct. n.p.: A girl who had been a waitress in a mining town and then graduated to a ‘booze capper’ in a western dance hall [HDAS].at booze-capper (n.) under booze, n.
Variety 4 June 4: [headline] Sketch Gets Over [...] ‘The Call’ went over big this weekend [HDAS].at get over, v.1
Variety 16 Mar. 15/4: There is one cabaret in particular, always a ‘dump,’ regardless of the names it has employed, where the girls in the show are obliged to accept introductions to male friends of the house staff, for the purpose of pushing up the bar business, if the girls want to retain employment.at dump, n.3
Variety 30 Nov. 19: A dance number of the jazzy syncopated type.at jazzy, adj.1
Variety 28 Mar. 40: He was sore [...] and gave the place the air [HDAS].at give something/somewhere the air (v.) under air, n.
Variety 27 Aug. 7: [heading] Thorek Cuts out Goat Gland Optimism. Theatrical surgeon says, Goat and Monkey N.G. for A.K.at a.k., n.1
Variety 31 Dec. 8: It was a great idea, but where were they gonna get it unless the college boy was hipped? He sure was — the real old stuff [HDAS].at hipped, adj.3
in Variety 18 Feb. 11: The ‘cooch’ dance under its latest name of ‘shimmy.’.at cooch show (n.) under cooch, n.
in Variety 8 July 6: She was in the ‘deuce’ spot.at deuce, adj.
in Variety 25 Nov. 23: The Adams act [...] is of the girly variety [HDAS].at girlie, adj.
Variety 4: Tomato would be hambonin’ around the rest of his natural life [...] and never get his name in a New York newspaper [HDAS].at hambone, v.1
Variety 16 Dec. 10: All the hoke and standards were present.at hoke, n.
Variety 4 May 9: This giboney comes back with, ‘Sorry, this is a five-story buildin’ and we ain’t got no sixth floor’.at jibone, n.
J. Conway in Variety 27 Jan. 11: He picks out a bag with a lame brain [HDAS].at bag, n.1
Variety 28 July 5: The old soup bone was bad [...] I fixed his crock up by takin’ him to a local osteopath [HDAS].at crock, n.4
Variety 14 July 8/1: We clipped a couple of monkeys for their whole roll .at monkey, n.
Variety 11 Oct. 16 [headline] ‘Rosie O’Reilly’ and ‘The Fool’, Loop’s Two Smash Hits.at smash, adj.
Variety 24 Dec. 14/5: He doesn’t wow ’em at any time and seems misplaced in the show [OED].at wow, v.
Variety 26 Aug. n.p.: You come to drink. You recline pacifically and irrigate the tonsils.at irrigate, v.
Variety 26 Aug. n.p.: Another exceptionally sordid phase of night life [is] what a prominent play broker calls ‘the third sex‘ [...] These girlish boys and manly women [etc] .at third sexer (n.) under third, adj.
Variety 29 Dec. xi 5/4: Broadway chatter is full of theatrical cracks such as [...] ‘ten per center’ [OED].at ten-per-center, n.
Variety 29 Dec. 7: A ‘milkman’ was a real hambo, who stole more bows than the applause warranted at the finish of his act [HDAS].at hambo, n.
Variety 1 May n.p.: [headline] Mae West [...] ‘The Babe Ruth of the Stage ‘Prosties’ — New Show Realistic.at prostie, n.
Variety 29 June 31: The makings of a good hokey act.at hokey, adj.
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