lobbygow

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a "lobbygow" -- an agent for some one higher up, recruiting both the gangs and the ranks of street women.

The War Terror 1908
Her bosom also was bare, for the lobbygow had searched there, also.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915
She had been so engrossed in following the lobbygow that it was with

Constance Dunlap 1908
"Yes, and a lobbygow for the grapevine system of selling the dope under this new law."

The Dream Doctor 1908
Her bosom also was bare, for the lobbygow had searched there, also.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
"Oh, well," he yawned, "you're on this case, and I'm only your lobbygow; so I suppose I've got to let it go at that.

Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909
He's a lobbygow for the grapevine system they have now of selling the dope in spite of this new law. "

Constance Dunlap 1908
"Yet under its influence, just as with his lobbygow and lieutenant, Brodie, he found power and inspiration.

The Dream Doctor 1908
"The Sir stuff," says I. "Just because I'm behind the ground glass instead of the brass rail don't make me a sacred being, or you a lobbygow, does it?

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907