Sugar Daddy (1923)

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NEW YORK POST, 17 June 2006, pg. 1 headline: SUGAR DADDY.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 17 June 2006, pg. 1 headline: MY SUGAR DADDIES.
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I discuss the Andrea (Andreia?) Schwartz and the subject of prostitution  and 
the tabloids here (minus the tabloid soft-porn front-page photos):
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What does the HDAS have for "sugar daddy"? Did it start in New York City in  
1923 with the sensationalist story below?
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/article/1605/sugar-daddy_ 
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Sugar Daddy
In 1923, Dorothy Keenan King (a New York model) was found chloroformed to  
death in her New York City apartment. She had called John Kearsley Mitchell her  
“heavy sugar daddy.” It is possible that “sugar daddy” began with this  
sensationalist case. 
A “sugar daddy” is one who had the money (“sugar”) to support someone or  
something. In 1936, “Sugar Daddy” was the name of a popular  candy.
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(Oxford English Dictionary)
sugar  daddy [cf. DADDY 3] slang (orig. U.S.), an elderly man who lavishes 
gifts on  a young woman. 
1926 G. FRANKAU My Unsentimental Journey ii. 32 There came another  woman to 
the sofa; and spoke to me of ‘*sugar-daddies’. 1935 WODEHOUSE Luck  of 
Bodkins xxi. 266 The morning papers had come aboard, reassuring  citizens..that 
sugar daddies were still being surprised in love-nests.  
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Champagne Cholly:
The Life and Times of  Maury Paul
by Eve Brown
E. P. Dutton & Company, New  York
1947 
Pg. 62:
Let us look at a brief lexicon: 
Lovely people: Sweetie Sweets.
Nasty people: Soury  Sours.
Money: Oodles of ducats.
Snobbish:  hoity-toity.
Long Island: Longuyland.
Happy:  dee-lighted.
The well-informed: Those Who Should Know Whereof They  Speak.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont: Social Sultana.
Sugar-daddy:  Grand Old Provider, or G. O. P.
Opera first-nighters: The Turreted  Tiara Set.
Ladies of the old guard: Staid and Steadies, or Stout and  Steadies.
Summer: The Torrid Months.
Rich Women: Doughty  Dowagers.
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27 March 1923, Syracuse (NY)  Herald, pg. 8:
Anna Pinkweed, tiring of her home town, Bogash, O.,  goes to New York to 
really live.
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Thus Anna was left with the  bewhiskered Sugar Daddy who wanted the knife.
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28 March 1923,  Kingston (Jamaica) Daily Freeman, pg. 5:
John Kearsley Mitchell,  son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, multi-millionaire, 
of Philadelphia, has been  revealed as the mysterious “Mr. Marshall,” who was 
the “heavy sugar daddy” of  Dorothy Keenan King, New York model, who was 
chloroformed to death in her New  York city apartment.
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12 April 1923, Syracuse (NY)  Herald, pg. 8:
“You haven’t forgot the night I dragged you away from  the girl who was 
yelling for her royal sugar daddy, have  you?”
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22 April 1923, Lima (Ohio) News, pg.  8?:
Dorothy never suffered anyone or anything to interrupt her rendezvous  with 
the man she called her “baby” and her “heavy sugar daddy.”
(Dorothy  Keenan King—ed.)
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29 April 1923, Los Angeles Times, “Peg  o’ Los Angeles,” Pg. III38:
The “sugar daddy” doll is the latest fad—a little  stuffed man in evening 
clothes!
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24 September 1923, Atlanta  Constitution, pg. 2:
A new “heavy sugar daddy” has appeared in the  republican cam[ in the 
general shuffle that has taken place along with the  accession of the Coolidge 
forces.
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10 February 1924, Atlanta  Constitution, pg. 10:
For Dottie had only one friend of any social  pretensions, her “heavy sugar 
daddy.”
(A Westbrook Pegler story datelined  from New York—ed.)
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25 February 1925, Washington Post,  pg. 11:
“Every time a stock goes up a point or two nowadays the street says,  ‘Ah, 
there goes Durant again! Some sugar daddy.’” 
“And,” said the cynic, “that is a pretty good reputation to have, provided  
you don’t let it wander too far up Broadway.”
(An S. S. Fontaine story  datelined from New York—ed.)
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27 October 1925, Washington  Post, pg. 17:
The Washington Exhibition Co. announces that Sugarman  has been signed to 
coach the professional basketball team that will represent  this city. The vital 
question is who is the “Sugar Daddy?”
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9  March 1926, New York Times, ‘The Play” by Brooks Atkinson, pg. 21:
As  embellishment to the merely serviceable fable, it touches lightly upon 
the  search for lodgings, the scarcity of running hot water, the vanities of the 
 actors, the jealousies and social cleavage, the “sugar daddy” of the show, 
the  difficulties of dressingrooms, baggage delivery and native stage manager, 
with a  thrust or two at Equity for sardonic condiment.
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(Trademark)
Word Mark SUGAR DADDY
Goods and Services IC 030. US  046. G & S: CANDY SUCKERS. FIRST USE:
19360400. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE:  19360400
Mark Drawing Code (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED  FORM
Serial Number 71565391
Filing Date September 17, 1948
Change In  Registration CHANGE IN REGISTRATION HAS OCCURRED Registration
Number  0544252
Registration Date June 26, 1951
Owner (REGISTRANT) JAMES D. WELCH  COMPANY CORPORATION MASSACHUSETTS 810
MAIN STREET CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS CHARMS MARKETING
COMPANY  CORPORATION BY ASSIGNMENT, BY ASSIGNMENT ILLINOIS 7401 SOUTH CICERO
AVENUE  CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60629
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Attorney of  Record DOUGLAS R. WOLF
Prior Registrations 0401144
Disclaimer NO  REGISTRATION RIGHTS ARE HEREIN CLAIMED IN RESPECT TO THE WORD
“SUGAR” APART  FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN.
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register  PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECTION 8(10-YR) 20011102.
Renewal 3RD  RENEWAL 20011102
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