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Broadway Brevities Dec. 44/1: Last month, in a moment of temporary aberration, we described someone called Margaret Kay as ‘a cute little armful.’ Will you forgive us? at armful (n.) under arm, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec. 44/1: Last month, in a moment of temporary aberration, we described someone called Margaret Kay as ‘a cute little armful.’ Will you forgive us? Broadway Brevities Dec 22: FEC bouncing me is a laugh. Your having made me stop advertising, is a scream.at bounce, v.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 34: It is my object to guard the reader against those brokerage firms known as Bucketshops and I will attempt to bring to your attention any house ‘down on the street’ which is neither safe nor sound to trade with.at bucket shop, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 28: Horrors of a Month. [...] The front-page stuff on the visiting European celebs.at celeb, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 15: Did you know that later despatches corrected the rumor of Dolly B being ‘cut out’' by Jessie R?at cut out, v.2
Broadway Brevities Dec 42/1: An incident of a ‘big’ manager given, on Saturday nights, to the inviting of a dozen of his flapper spear-carriers to some Long Island millionaire’s castle, where [...] they would remain until Monday to entertain and divert a bunch of tired and wealthy business daddies.at daddy, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec. 44/2: One of the other sub-debs tried to improve upon the
story by pulling something about a
card with one of those helpful business
mottoes on them.at sub-deb, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 14/1: The police have in the past dozen years made virtually an end of street soliciting [but] it’s just a matter of knowing the old town well to discover the present habitat of the gold-diggers.at gold-digger, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 33: Dear Vesk: For God’s sake don’t forget there’s a drag on tonight.at drag, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 20: Is it true that Bee Savage is to hit the matrimonial hurdles with Larry
Sabellos? Wonder if she'll have better luck than Mona, the ex?at ex, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec. 50: Jack ‘delivers the goods,’ to which
his steadily increasing clientele fully
testifies.at deliver the goods (v.) under goods, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 13/2: Didn’t she finally settle upon the boob who grabs off a big earned increment in moving pictures.at grab, v.
Broadway Brevities Dec 14/2: The little ladies of leisure who sleep until 1 p. m. and seldom hit the hay before
5 a. m.at hit the hay (v.) under hay, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 20: Why has Bennv F forgotten all his old objection to hootch parties?at hooch, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 12/2: Glimpsing Arthur Ashley coming out of Freeman’s the other night with a Jane and an armful of food. Our veteran cor says he thinks the Jane might have been Alma Y—.at jane, n.2
Broadway Brevities Dec. 50: Did you get a lamp at estelle Winwood’s new Britisher?at lamp, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 13/2: Didn’t the young lady say, ‘If I meet a live one [...] I can do stuff that will hold him till hell freezes over’.at live one, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 18: THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER WITHOUT: Beards. Jurors who’d believe the testimony of a homely woman in a mash case.at mash, n.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 19: When we mooch along into Annie’s diary, we've got still worse coming.at mooch, v.
Broadway Brevities Dec 14/1: Another puzzler, rather sociological in its nature, is ‘where did all the nymphs of the pave go?’.at nymph of the pavé, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 14/1: We’ve personally seen a dozen pick-ups in as many minutes in the Astor corridors.at pick-up, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 20: Who's Jessie Reid’s shoemaker? Understanding is that Jessie wears round heels.at roundheels, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec. 43/1: As soon as this rummy Romeo notices that, the bets will be off and he'll be home at the dinner-table again!at rummy, adj.2
Broadway Brevities Dec 18: [of a woman's love letters to a man] Come hither, children, if you're weak on reading cataclysmic cachinnations of amour, if you've a yen for the red-hot lava of passion, for sizzling, Sapphic serenades of Desire.at sapphic (adj.) under sappho, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 13/2: We have sent Mr Posner [of Great Meadow Prison] another package [of Brevities], delighted to give a little pleasure to those poor shut-ins.at shut-in (n.) under shut, v.
Broadway Brevities Dec 11/2: After having the skids put under her by L. Lawrence Weber [...] she skipped to the coast and put the works into Jack Dillon.at put the skids under (v.) under skids, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 18: I am just longing for one of those soul-kisses that you are so expert at giving.at soul kiss (n.) under soul, adj.1
Broadway Brevities Dec 11/2: After having the skids put under her by L. Lawrence Weber [...] she skipped to the coast and put the works into jack Dillon.at give someone the works (v.) under works, the, n.
Broadway Brevities Dec 13/1: Two well-known Broadwayites had nothing better to do than to vamp down here.at vamp, v.2
Broadway Brevities Dec 42/1: But if they welched on the Saturday-Monday stuff— TWO WEEK’ NOTICE!at welch, v.
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