One highly imaginative account claims the throng told stories through the night in drunken outbursts of wild revelry. As if quoting from a house menu of early American alcoholic drinks, rather than reporting an eyewitness account, this version tells us they guzzled nobly of punch, of flip, and downed the inevitable stonewalls [a mixture of whiskey or rum and cider].

‘NBC Music Library... the files have to be stocked with every kind of score that exists, including... Harlem hotchas.’

If you make enough of a fuss about the problem, maybe they'll fix it for you.

We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.