Any experts on 1920s slang?

[Plaid Dad]

My dw loves the song "Don't Bring Lulu. (http://www.spiritofsinatra.com/pages/Lyrics/d/Dont_Bring_Lulu.htm)" We're wondering what the phrase "then she got the air" means. It's in the second verse. Anyone know?

[nancypants]

get the air, Informal.
a. to be rejected, as by a lover.
b. to be dismissed, as by an employer: He had worked only a few days when he got the air.

HTH :D

[Plaid Dad]

Cool - thank you. Now we know. That Lulu... ;)

[GraciebytheBay]

My dh is into Old Time Radio, and he says that it means to get kicked out. He has heard it in several shows.

[Robin in Tx]

Probably because she was a flapper at a high brow affair. (That's what a smartie is... a flapper). The zulu reference was kinda like the n word back then. He's describing her as wild and unrestrained and offensive to the uptight, formal types... and he'd like to have her for himself :).

[Karen sn]

I learn so much here....I am getting addicted again to the boards.
Thank goodness because I was begining to wonder. Old Time Radio Speak.

[*anj*]

Wow, youse girls are better Googlers than I am!
I'm glad to know the meaning, now I need to find a recording of the song because it sounds like a gas!

[Robin in Tx]

LOL!... Actually, my dad was a young adult during the flapper days, and my mom an adolescent... You'd be suprised how much of their "slang" is still our slang today! :)

Robin

[Jean in Newcastle]

Well, personally, I just think it's the cat's meow!

[Robin in Tx]

And the berries, too! :)