Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tipping in the U. S. has long been a question hotly debated. Does it debase a freeman to accept a tip from a peer who, born his equal, also happened to be born with more money? The Yeas have hung up signs in their restaurants, boot-parlors, or what not, saying "Please do not tip," or "Our Employes Are Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside...
Merriment, music and maidens are copiously supplied in Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Tip-Toes, lolanthe, The Vagabond King, No, No, Nanette...
...They were lost again, in the rain-shapes of fog, flying to no destination more real than the unknown termination of a myth. What horse was leading? It might be Sir Abe Bailey's Lex, an entry which Lady Astor gave the miners in South Wales as a tip to win. It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total of some $10,000,000 had been bet because he had recently beaten Coronach, the winter favorite, by five lengths. It might have been Lancegaye. It might be Swift and Sure. It might be Apple Sammy...
...audience which warmly greeted the début of a contralto in Minneapolis were many sharp- seeing critics of pugilism. They were not always sure of the correct moment to applaud, but when they got the "tip" from others, they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...
MUSICAL Charleston, comedy and charm flourish in these: Iolanthe, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, Tip-Toes, and No, No, Nanette...