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Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Africa – The Black Belt, especially the colored cabarets.at Africa, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Africa – The Black Belt, especially the colored cabarets. Taxi-Dance Hall 44: I’ve not been around so much in Chicago. I’ve been to the ‘black and tans’.at black and tan club, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 96: The Polish girl from ‘back of the yards’.at back-ah-yard (n.) under back, adv.
Taxi-Dance Hall 179: The trouble was started by a sailor known as Kanaka Pete.at Canuck, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 101: They’re such easy ‘carp’ I figure that if they hang around long enough somebody’s bound to knock them off.at carp, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 111: I had her out two times before but both times something crabbed things up.at crab, v.
Taxi-Dance Hall 100: The first thing in being a successful ‘gold-digger’ is to choose the right fellow.at gold-digger, n.1
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: On the ebony – A taxi-dance hall or taxi-dancer countenancing social contacts with men of races other than white.at ebony, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 101: They’re such easy ‘carp’ I figure [...] I need the money more than the others, and I might just as well be the one to ‘fish’ them. [Ibid.] 102: ‘Fishing’ and the ‘sex game’ become for these girls the accepted way of earning a living.at fish, v.1
Taxi-Dance Hall 97: I was always getting a flame over this fellow or that one.at flame, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 100: Most of the white fellows won’t dance with me if they learn I go out with Flips.at Flip, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 103: Now ‘Frenchy’ is a good-looking little Frenchman who knows how to make love.at Frenchie, n.1
Taxi-Dance Hall 13: ‘Get off that dime,’ good-naturedly shouts a taxi-dancer to a girl chum and her over-zealous patron.at get off the dime (v.) under get off, v.3
Taxi-Dance Hall 51: They were always well dressed, and treated me nicely; I fell for them [Filipinos] hard.at hard, adv.
Taxi-Dance Hall 140: By Monday he’s spent most of his week’s pay and has to ‘go light’ until the next Saturday.at light, adj.
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Line-up, the – Immorality engaged in by several men and a girl.at line-up, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 258: Most of the patrons ‘fall’ for my ‘line’.at line, n.1
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Niggerlover – A girl who ‘dates’ Filipinos.at nigger-lover, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Monkeys. Dancing girls, either chorus girls or taxi-dancers [...] Monkey-chaser – A man interested in a taxi-dancer or chorus girl [...] Monkey shows. – Burlesque shows having chorus girls.at monkey-chaser (n.) under monkey, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Monkeys. Dancing girls, either chorus girls or taxi-dancers [...] Monkey-chaser – A man interested in a taxi-dancer or chorus girl [...] Monkey shows. – Burlesque shows having chorus girls.at monkey, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 17: Monkey shows. – Burlesque shows having chorus girls [...] The first efforts of its clientele to provide a satisfactory name for the taxi-dance hall resulted in such descriptive phrases as ‘dime-a-dance-halls,’ ‘stag dance,’ and ‘monkey hops’.at monkey show (n.) under monkey, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 99: When I’m waiting for dances I walk along the side acting like I’m full of the Old Nick.at Old Nick, n.
(ref. to 1910s) Taxi-Dance Hall 17: At the same time the taxi-dancer in Chicago, because her revenue from each separate dance had been fixed at five cents, was awarded the apt title ‘nickel-hopper’—a nickname that has remained with her until the present time.at nickel-hopper (n.) under nickel, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 44: Oh, these ‘Niggers’ (Filipinos) [...] are just ‘fish’ to the girls.at nigger, n.1
Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Opera, ‘the opera’ – A burlesque show. [Ibid.] 138: On Thursday evening we [...] go to the ‘Opera’ as we call it (burlesque show).at opera, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 103: I’m ‘out’ with him now, because of the way he treated me.at out with, adj.
Taxi-Dance Hall 250: It’s about how they ‘fished’ a man for a ring with a big ‘rock’ in it.at rock, n.
Taxi-Dance Hall 205: I knew she wouldn’t, because I was solid with the captain (district police captain).at solid, adj.
(ref. to 1910s) Taxi-Dance Hall 17: The first efforts of its clientele to provide a satisfactory name for the taxi-dance hall resulted in such descriptive phrases as [...] ‘stag dance’.at stag dance (n.) under stag, adj.
Taxi-Dance Hall 103: Now ‘Toughy’, as I call him, comes from South Chicago. He’s a bad boy.at toughie, n.
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