1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 56: An elderly gentleman in a brown derby [...] sidled up to all the girls in turn, caressing most of them and kissing some. She enquired who he was and was told, ‘He is the angel of the piece.’.at angel, n.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 89: [The] large ornate dolls which indulgent New Yorker male likes to buy for his lady friend. He gives his ‘baby’ a baby, his ‘cutie’ a cutie, his ‘baby-doll’ a baby-doll.at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 30: The Russian he-bear, the bull-moose of those parts, holds his wine-glass over the cendre hair of his picnic companion.at bull moose, n.1
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 43: But here was where my friend from Rhodes belonged, or in local parlance here the islander ‘held down his jahb.’.at hold down, v.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 13: Broadway is the mother of Broadways all over the world [...] The Great White Way is the greatest white way.at Great White Way, n.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 71: His was decidedly a seasoned head. With every glass of ‘inspiration’ he took two chasers of beer.at inspired, adj.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 33: ‘Good kid stuff, don’t you think?’ enquires Dickerman, admiring his own artifice. ‘All this appeals to the everlasting boy in the grown man.’.at kid, adj.1
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 67: He was wholly matter-of-fact, conventional, timorous. There was nothing of the sheik or bootleg king.at -king, sfx
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 34: Nigger Heaven, away up in the hundred-and-thirties, begins to dim its stars.at nigger heaven (n.) under nigger, n.1
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 73: The reporter was a little unsteady. ‘I was well spanked before you came along,’ he explained.at spanked, adj.
1927 S. Graham N.Y. Nights 67: He always came with some potential purchaser who stood him the drinks.at stand, v.2