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On Broadway 12 July [synd. col.] Condemned men at Sing Sing do not pass through a ‘green’ door to go to the Hot Squat. It is a brown door.at hot seat, n.
On Broadway 12 July [synd. col.] Condemned men at Sing Sing do not pass through a ‘green’ door to go to the Hot Squat. It is a brown door. On Broadway 3 Aug. [synd. col.] The ah-ah who gets carbonated on your giggle water and then proceeds to give you a piece of his mind.at ah-ah, n.
On Broadway 1 Oct. [synd. col.] The show ‘Divided Honors’ is angeled by James Imbrie, of Wall Street.at angel, v.
On Broadway 3 Oct. [synd. col.] The too much sunburn theory is strictly the berries.at berries, the, n.1
On Broadway 18 Sept. [synd. col.] He had prestige as a Greenwich Village poet [...] and then he petered out. His intimates couldn’t say why, he just went bleh.at go blah (v.) under blah, adj.
On Broadway 12 Aug. [synd. col.] The censors [...] threatened [...] that unless a scene was re-taken the entire film would be blue-penciled.at blue-pencil, v.
On Broadway 19 Sept. [synd. col.] When the inexperienced badmen discovered their boner two days later, they [...] wrote him a letter of apology.at boner, n.3
On Broadway 10 July [synd. col.] Among other burn ups last week was a telegram received by Al Jolson [...] the wire aggravated him no little.at burn up, v.
On Broadway 27 July [synd. col.] ‘How do yer feel?’ ‘Aw [...] I feel like thirty cents’.at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
On Broadway 30 July [synd. col.] Edith Day got the chill from the British.at chill, n.
On Broadway 25 Sept. [synd. col.] Pointing her clackers at Hilda [she] screeched, ‘Oh look, Miss Ferguson has her bracelets in hock!’.at clacker, n.1
On Broadway 5 Nov. [synd. col.] When the market tottered it served to ‘clean’ Tex Guinan’s brother Tommy.at clean out, v.
On Broadway 10 July [synd. col.] Any of the underworlders along Coffee Pot Canyon will tell you that people who ‘know’ why Rothstein or Marlow were knocked off never talk about it .at coffee-pot canyon (n.) under coffee, n.
On Broadway 4 Oct. [synd. col.] Somebody asked Ruth how she felt when she found herself over the [air] field and realized she had a chance of ‘cracking up’ very badly.at crack up, v.2
On Broadway 19 Oct. [synd. col.] He is one of the nicer Broadway fellows — the sort who has never been known to deal from the bottom.at deal off the bottom of the deck (v.) under deal, v.
On Broadway 3 Oct. [synd. col.] No one of [his friends] could bring himself to the point of playing him dirty or digging him in the back.at dig, v.1
in On Broadway 7 Aug. [synd. col.] Eat your doggies with a pickle, step up, folks, it’s just a nickel!at hot dog, n.1
On Broadway 7 Oct. [synd. col.] If he yells hot dog, he is Johnny Weismuller, the swimming champ.at hot dog!, excl.
On Broadway 12 Sept. [synd. col.] Two chorines [...] were at it again. ‘Be nice to all the stagedoor Johns,’ said the first.at stage-door johnnie, n.
On Broadway 10 July [synd. col.] He asked her age. ‘I was just 20,’ white-lied the 25-year-old eyeful.at eyeful, n.
On Broadway 9 Aug. [synd. col.] Matthew Vassar, who founded that femme college.at femme, adj.
On Broadway 27 July [synd. col.] The ‘hot foot’ is Broadway’s favorite gag. While someone engages you in gab, another creeps on all fours under your table, places half a paper match in the sole of your boot and then ignites it with a cigarette.at hot foot, n.
On Broadway 19 Oct. [synd. col.] Listen, for gossakes, my husband has commenced to running around with other women.at for gosh sake!, excl.
On Broadway 11 Sept. [synd. col.] She ‘went’ for a Canuck, who had a way with him.at go for, v.1
On Broadway 5 Aug. [synd. col.] It happened in one of the larger giggle-water parlors.at giggle-water (n.) under giggle, adj.
On Broadway 27 Aug. [synd. col.] Clifton Webb’s real handle is Clifton Raum.at handle, n.
On Broadway 24 Sept. [synd. col.] Prince George of Britain and his hank of hair, first-named ‘Kiki’, have phffft!at hank, n.5
On Broadway 17 July [synd. col.] [She] was amazed to see her sympathetic girl friend [...] enter a nightclub with her former ‘heart’.at heart, n.
On Broadway 21 Nov. [synd. col.] Lew Field’s daughter, Dorothy, a German heebess.at Hebe, n.
On Broadway 15 Aug. [synd. col.] A pair of heeb operation-talkers were trying to out-talk each other on their respective ailments.at hebe, adj.
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