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Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 167: At the corner of Lennox Avenue and 144th Street, the heart of the ‘Black Belt’.at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 167: At the corner of Lennox Avenue and 144th Street, the heart of the ‘Black Belt’. Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 135: Restaurants, whose plate-glass windows advertize in Bon Ami lettering that ‘snouts plus cabb’ are fifteen cents, and pea soup five.at cab, n.2
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 99: ‘Look through that window – that’s where we keep the camisoles.’ ‘Do you mean straightjackets?’ ‘If you like to call them that.’.at camisole, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 153: A few ‘characters’ remain. One of them is Joe Gould, about the loss of whose teeth Cummings was inspired to write a poem.at character, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 93: They think up the darndest things.at darnedest (adj.) under darned, adj.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 64: At particularly rowdy parties the Rah-Rah Boy may shout at intervals the approving slogan ‘Razzle-Dazzle!’.at razzle-dazzle, adj.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 174: Sometimes a ‘Drag’ (or costume ball) is announced.at drag, n.1
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 99: No foolin’, you oughta hear what they say if they don’t like the show.at no fooling, phr.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 99: Heck, how the audience yells.at heck!, excl.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 167: Some of the grandest Fifth Avenue houses are only a few blocks away from the ‘Hot Bed Houses’ called Home by coloured workers who rent beds, let out in three eight-hour shifts throughout the twenty-four.at hotbed (n.) under hot, adj.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 194: I have never been [...] to a ‘jam session,’ or to the Yankee stadium, where the swing sessions, starting at eleven in the morning, reduce, by tea-time, the audience to a jelly.at jam session, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 205: Jeese, just see the way they feed the ball each other.at jeez!, excl.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 57: My conception is you oughta be doin’ better’n joikin’ if this is all you can turn out.at jerk, v.2
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 171: The boy, a macaroni in dress, his long, seemingly boneless limbs encased in grey check.at macaroni, n.1
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 25: The guy [...] must have more potatoes in his pocket than most guys who walk along Broadway these days.at potato, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 63: The American expression ‘Rah-Rah Boy’ is used to describe a certain type of college youth who watches football-games in a big fur coat and a pork-pie hat.at rah-rah, adj.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 325: The slang expressions become more elaborate each year, but certain of them have become a permanent part of the language. Money has become ‘rope’.at rope, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 25: One which citizens without as many potatoes as this guy seems to have in his pocket, would do well to avoid if she gives them the eye, or I’m a tomato.at tomato, n.
Cecil Beaton’s N.Y. 25: A large amount is ‘a whale of a lot.’.at whale of a lot under whale, n.
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