Word: lil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
...Democratic Party, as exemplified by its Presidential Nominee Alfred Emanuel Smith, has been christened "Diamond Lil" by the New York American (Hearst daily). A series of political cartoons† depicts her as part donkey, part woman, with big pearls around her neck, with tight-fitting, scanty black dress. She usually goes riding in an automobile with a tiger flunky and a chauffeur labelled RASKOB. Some days ago, Diamond Lil had an accident, an explosion caused by the Maine election. Her automobile was blown to smithereens. The story beneath the cartoon told...
...Diamond Lil, transmogrified** Democratic donkey, thanks Providence that she didn't lose her pearls, although she did lose the Maine election...
...Raskob, Diamond Lil's new chauffeur, also declined to be interviewed. Nurses at the hospital, where he lay for awhile unconscious, say that he repeated over and over, 'Take me back to General Motors,' whatever he may have meant by that...
...These cartoons are the work of two Hearst aces: Arthur Brisbane furnishes the ideas; T. E. ("Ton") Powers does the drawing. Some of the cartoons show ''Diamond Lil" leading a little animal, part dog, part man, labeled GLOOM...