Word: layin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...
...Guadalcanal bull-voiced Jim Crowe contributed his bit to Marine folklore: leading a charge against the dug-in Japs, he yelled: "Get out of those foxholes, men, you'll never get the Purple Heart layin' there!" Jim Crowe lasted through Tarawa before he got his Purple Heart, added it to his Silver Star (Guadalcanal), Navy Cross (Tarawa) and his Good Conduct medal (four enlistments) which he says he prizes most...
...known clients in public places. He is known to his clients as a "pusher." His clients are known as "vipers." Etiquette between pushers and vipers is necessarily delicate. When he wants to buy, the viper sidles up to the pusher and inquires "Are ya stickin'?" or "Are ya layin' down the hustle?" If the answer is affirmative, the viper says, "Gimme an ace" (meaning one reefer), "a deuce" (meaning two), or "a deck" (meaning a large number). The viper may then quietly "blast the weed" (smoke). Two or three long puffs usually suffice after a while to produce...
...said: "I got a thing to tell you. I got to have help." 'Geechee's man, Leroy, was serving a 20-year term for manslaughter. "You know people," said 'Geechee, "you can git him out. . . . He didn't do a thing. This other nigger was layin' for him. He went at Leroy and he bopped him one and Leroy be's strong and he made a pass at him and it done killed this nigger." Author Rawlings got Leroy out, gave him a job at the grove. Soon his manner was so threatening that...
...conference, Franklin Roosevelt agreed with newsmen that they were all at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The news was at the other end, in the Capitol, where Wendell Willkie was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see p. 16). Like Br'er Rabbit, the President was layin...