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White Light Nights 193: Harlem has ‘black-and-tan’ resorts with a two-dollar couvert charge.at black and tan club, n.
White Light Nights 193: Harlem has ‘black-and-tan’ resorts with a two-dollar couvert charge. White Light Nights 1: In New York, Reuben does not come to town. He lives here. Remove the spats and monocle and behold the apple-knocker.at apple-knocker, n.
White Light Nights 162: Either someone is doing some gosh-awful kidding in our theater or I am hopelessly dumb.at gosh-awful, adj.
White Light Nights 3: The capricious cuties who live by their ability to find the ‘live one’ do not angle for visiting Babbitts.at babbitt, n.
White Light Nights 19: Doc Shuffield in high hat and boiled shirt.at boiled shirt (n.) under boiled, adj.
White Light Nights 138: He handcuffed me to a young Italian who had ‘bricked’ a Bowery pawnshop window.at brick, v.1
White Light Nights 16: Where once the bungstarter spoke with authority, the Bowery now ‘says it with flowers’.at bung-starter (n.) under bung, n.2
White Light Nights 39: ‘Buttons’ from the fashionable hotels.at buttons, n.
White Light Nights 103: Hot diggedy dog! [...] This town is sholy the cat’s vest. Colored folks is quality.at cat’s pyjamas, n.
White Light Nights 17: ‘Dummy Chuckers’ are no longer throwing their fake fits in front of Beefsteak John’s.at dummy-chucker, n.
White Light Nights 3: The capricious cuties who live by their ability to find the ‘live one’ do not angle for visiting Babbitts.at cutie, n.1
White Light Nights 139: It was in a la-de-dah Fifth Avenue soda-fountain where theater crowds go in evening dress.at la-di-da(h), adj.
White Light Nights 103: ‘Hot diggedy dog!’ he exclaimed.at hot diggety (dog)!, excl.
White Light Nights 49: There is little flubdubbery among the ‘ivory benders’. [...] Any number of them have never had a music lesson.at flub, n.
White Light Nights 23: The tarnished ‘Flytrap’ could not compete with the mirrored elegance of a tea dansant.at flytrap (n.) under fly, n.3
White Light Nights 86: Over in the Roaring Forties workmen were fashioning a new supper club.at Roaring Forties, n.
White Light Nights 201: To the profession he stands as a ready response to the ‘quick touch.’ ‘Let George do it’ was coined for him.at let George do it under George, n.3
White Light Nights 7: There are the ocean greyhounds who travel on transatlantic liners to fleece the credulous at cards.at greyhound, n.1
White Light Nights 34: The rest will follow blindly. [...] No matter whether the trail leads to a gypping cafe or a signless shop where clerks drop their h’s.at gyp, adj.
White Light Nights 49: There is little flubdubbery among the ‘ivory benders’.at ivory-bender (n.) under ivory, n.
White Light Nights 9: This is hard-boiled New York. In truth, as soft as soap; [...] It is ‘Jaytown-on-the-Hudson’.at jay town (n.) under jay, n.1
White Light Nights 3: Not by a jugful!at by a jugful under jug, n.1
White Light Nights 39: ‘Buttons’ from the fashionable hotels air the prize-winning kiyoodles.at kiyoodle, n.
White Light Nights 112: Out of a wine and bun shop, a peg-leg beggar lurched.at peg-legger, n.1
White Light Nights 24: Out of the side street in the Furious Forties seeps a roguishly rouged nymphe du pavé.at nymph of the pavé, n.
White Light Nights 108: My Bert! Lor’ bli’ me! ’E was owled last night, ’e was.at owled, adj.
White Light Nights 2: If you ask the brown-derbied ‘pitch men’ who sell trifling gimcracks along the curb, they will tell you New York is the biggest sucker town in America.at pitchman, n.
White Light Nights 138: ‘Well, Pop, what they got you for?’ asked a youthful alcoholic.at pop, n.3
White Light Nights 20: There is not a ‘reliever shop’ left. In these cellar hutches the outcast changed his shoes for those a little more worn to obtain in addition the price of a drink.at reliever, n.
White Light Nights 147: This polite form of sandbagging is a tax on fear—the inherent New Yorkish ‘fear of the uniform’.at sandbag, v.1
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