1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 19 May (1953) 39: The thin-skinned speaker sits in agony through the clod-hopping, brick-dropping introduction.at clodhopping, adj.
1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 3 May (1953) 32: A venerable figure [with] a dew-drop poised on the end of his rosy nose.at dewdrop, n.1
1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 24 Apr. (1953) 19: Don’t trust anybody, but don’t get trigger-happy.at trigger happy, adj.
1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 24 Apr. (1953) 18: O’Brien from Harrow [...] whose ‘oppo’ Ralph Haine [...] is, at twenty, eighteen months older.at oppo, n.
1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 19 Sept. (1953) 78: There is little of that absurd class snobbery [...] except for the bigger farmers, who are of course our aristocracy and one or two stuffies who fancy themselves as gentry.at stuffy, adj.1
1951 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 14 Oct. (1953) 80: You’re all right, boy you’re all right —you’ll walk it.at walk it (v.) under walk, v.
1952 T. Driberg Best of Both Worlds (diary) 11 July (1953) 206: There’s a blowhard, a bully, a goof-off artist [...] an alibi artist, and a one-stripe general .at -artist, sfx