[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Interesting topic, Fred. Barry Popik has a webpage on  "sugar daddy".
The first citation is dated March 27, 1923.

https://barrypopik.com/new_york_city/entry/sugar_daddy

The text for the first citation matches the surrealistic Lima, Ohio
citation that Fred found, but apparently it occurred two days earlier
in the Syracuse (NY) Herald. The database was not specified by Barry.
I cannot find the Syracuse citation in newspapers.com. Perhaps it is
in some other database.

Here is a March 20, 1923 article in "The Sun" newspaper of Baltimore.
It included an explanation of the pertinent slang, and it contained
the phrases "heavy sugar baby" and "heavy sugar papa".

The outline and examples provided indicated that "heavy sugar sweetie"
and "heavy sugar daddy" were both acceptable slang phrases. However,
neither of those two phrases actually appeared in "The Sun" article.
Both of those phrases did appear in later articles about this murder
story in other newspapers.

In summary, the newspaper implies the existence of the slang phrase
"heavy sugar daddy", but it does not directly appear. Here are the
details:

Date: March 20, 1923
Newspaper: The Baltimore Sun
Newspaper Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Article: Heavy Sugar Baby Career Followed By Murdered Model
Start Page 1, Quote Page 10, Column 2
Database: Newspapers.com

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun/121306370/

[Begin excerpt - please double check for errors]
A heavy sugar baby, for the benefit of those whose world is that
bounded by Forty-second street, Fifth avenue, Fifty-seventh street and
Eighth avenue, is a girl, always dazzlingly beautiful, who has
mastered the art of separating men, always extremely wealthy, from
large quantities of sugar, i.e., money, or the things that it will
buy.

The heavy sugar baby's men friends, according to the idiom of
Broadway's half world, are divided into three classes--the "papa," the
"daddy" and the "sweetie." The papa is an elderly admorer (sic) with
lots of sugar. The daddy has just as much, but is younger. The sweetie
is not so strong on sugar, but very strong on love--or what passes for
it in the white light world.
. . .
He and the mysterious "Marshall," the "heavy sugar papa" whose name is
being withheld by the District Attorney’s office, were her favorites .
..
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> I omitted the name of the newspaper in the second citation below.  It should be the _Lima_ (Ohio) _Republican-Gazette_.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> sugar daddy (OED 1926)
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> 1923 _Portsmouth_ (Ohio) _Daily Times_ 28 Mar. 1 / 2 (Newspapers.com)  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 suger daddy" of Dorothy Keenan King, New York model, who was choloroformed to death in her New York City apartment.
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> 1923 _Lima_ (Ohio) 29 Mar. 13/1 (Newspapers.com)  Anna Pinkweed having come to New York from Bogash, O., has many setbacks, and now we find her rebuking a sugar daddy in front of a restaurant.
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> Fred Shapiro
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