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I slutningen af 1920'erne begyndte andre New York-forfattere end Fitz Gerald at bruge "Big Apple" og brugte det i andre sammenhænge end hestevæddeløb. "The Big Apple" var en populær sang og dans i 1930'erne. Walter Winchell og andre forfattere fortsatte med at bruge udtrykket i 1940'erne og 1950'erne, men i 1960'erne var det generelt blevet kendt som en gammel betegnelse for New York.
By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use "Big Apple" and were using it in contexts other than horse-racing. "The Big Apple" was a popular song and dance in the 1930s. Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the term in the 1940s and 1950s, but by the 1960s it had generally come to be known as an old name for New York.
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