Talking about men
The word bimbo was in vogue in the 1920s in an entirely different context than it is understood today. A bimbo was a man enamored with his macho. A bimbo believed himself to be darb (wonderful). Bimbos considered themselves to be ladies men, called cake-eaters. Bimbos could be incorrect in their self-assessment, making them all wet. Bimbo’s who loitered about hoping to attract a hotsy-totsy tomato were drug-store cowboys, and if they were unemployed they were called dewdroppers, particularly if they slept all day and prowled at night. Dewdroppers were not considered to be gentlemen of good character, and many were bootleggers, hence the name (dropping dew).
When bimbos, or anyone else, started to lose their temper they were getting in a lather. Particularly tough bimbos were hard-boiled, but so were some tough tomatoes. Some bimbos eschewed the flivver and went about using iron, a motorcycle. The opposite of a bimbo, a man who was mild of temperament, was called a milquetoast. They were seldom seen on iron. Milquetoasts were often considered by bimbos to be three-letter men, a twenties reference which equates to gay today, though in the twenties gay meant happy and cheerful and had no relationship to homosexuality.