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Night Club Era 107: [A]n exasperated police sergeant called him [Owney Madden] ‘that little banty rooster out of hell,’ and he always had about him some of that alert and truculent cockiness.at banty, adj.
Night Club Era 107: [A]n exasperated police sergeant called him [Owney Madden] ‘that little banty rooster out of hell,’ and he always had about him some of that alert and truculent cockiness. Night Club Era 28: Once he had batted around the country, not caring what happened to him.at bat, v.
Night Club Era 311: [T]he Rev. Christian Fichthorne Reisner had injured himself while belly-busting with some small boys down a hill near his church in the snow.at belly-buster (n.) under belly, n.
Night Club Era 33: Twenty-four men could belly up to the bar without undue crowding.at belly up (to), v.
Night Club Era 24: There was, clearly, blood on the moon. Something ominous was in the air.at blood on the moon (n.) under blood, n.1
Night Club Era 240: Texas Guinan[’s] greeting ‘Hello, sucker!’ became the watchword of boob-traps from Wall Street to Hollywood.at boob trap (n.) under boob, n.2
Night Club Era 46: A place in Hell’s Kitchen that was known in the patois of the era as a ‘clip joint’ [Ibid.] 301: [The] command of Captain Patrick McVeigh [...] as he turned to his strong-arm squad during a raid on a ‘clip’: ‘Toss this joint in the street’.at clip-joint, n.
Night Club Era 42: Jim Brincker [...] was in the tradition of the great saloon-keepers of pre-prohibition America. He granted to every man the right to cook his brains with whatever potion he preferred.at cook one’s brains (v.) under cook, v.1
Night Club Era 148: [S]itting in the ‘cuff’ or ‘red ink’ corner, a spot reserved for accomplished gangsters, representatives of the law, and a few Broadway columnists who don't feel they should be called upon to pay for their food, drink and entertainment.at cuff corner (n.) under cuff, n.2
Night Club Era 214: The worst that could be said against most [speakeasy whisky] was that it had been cut too much — or ‘Gilletted,’ as the saying had it.at Gillette, v.
Night Club Era 212: [T]he police, who removed the body after examining seventeen quarts of ‘good stuff’ back of the bar.at good stuff (n.) under good, adj.1
Night Club Era 161: It will be found that the policeman [. . .] laps up goose grease and even the cruder forms of blandishment.at grease, n.1
Night Club Era 182: The Inspector, whose best friends never accused him of being a mental giant, went through this puzzling period with a hurt, what-the-hell? expression on his Irish face.at what-the-hell, adj.
Night Club Era 24: A judge in the Bronx said it was all right for a woman to smoke on the street (‘What do you think this is, Hicksville?’).at Hicksville, n.
Night Club Era 84: [T]he staid home boy, who lived with his family out in Queens County, but who [...] embezzled, over a period of many years, more than $60,000 which he spent in night clubs.at homeboy, n.
Night Club Era 245: Most of the money she [Texas Guinan] gathered in during the years of the great hoop-la was money which came from persons who were eager to spend it.at hoopla, n.
Night Club Era 33: ‘Just tell the boys not to place any more bets on the horses over the phone’ .at horses, n.
Night Club Era 250: ‘[Florence Mills] has the genius of the grotesque . . . Her body speaks.’ Hot-cha.at hotcha!, excl.
Night Club Era 82: The hotels began to adopt the table d'hôte, long the symbol of the red-ink joints, which were being driven to the wall.at red ink joint (n.) under red ink, n.
Night Club Era 148: [S]itting in the ‘cuff’ or ‘red ink’ corner, a spot reserved for accomplished gangsters, representatives of the law, and a few Broadway columnists who don't feel they should be called upon to pay for their food, drink and entertainment.at red ink corner (n.) under red ink, n.
Night Club Era 203: There are [on Broadway] chow-meineries, peep shows for men only, flea circuses [...] jitney ballrooms and a farrago of other attractions.at jitney, adj.
Night Club Era 58: great droves of dry agents, who might have been tempted to make a final shake-down tour before they were fired, desisted because there wasn't anything in the cash register.at shakedown, n.
Night Club Era 205: [C]auliflower ears, beggars, sleazy crones, skinny girls who would be out of place in even the cheapest dance hall.at sleazy, adj.
Night Club Era 259: [T]he snatch racket, as kidnaping came to be known, had developed into a popular source of income for the underworld.at snatch racket (n.) under snatch, n.
Night Club Era 178: Next he went to see ‘Aphrodite’ at the Century Theater, a production which, for those days, was regarded as pretty far south.at south, adj.
Night Club Era 148: Winchell and his imitators would write that the couple are ‘preparing a bassinet,’ ‘getting storked’ or awaiting ‘a blessed expense’.at stork, v.
Night Club Era 225: His favorite tear-jerker, in his speeches, was a declaration of his great affection for New York City.at tearjerker, n.
Night Club Era 58: [M]ost of whom [i.e. political delegates] were politically dry but wild for the bottle.at wild, adj.
Night Club Era 128: [T]he jottings of the wool hat correspondent from Frog Hollow.at wool hat (n.) under wool, n.1
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