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Sat. Eve. Post (Phila.) 2 Nov. 4: [heading] Can You Eat Crow? [...] Isaac sat down to the crow. He took a good bite, and began to chew away. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I kin eat crow (another bite and awful face,) I kin eat crow, (symptoms of nausea,) I kin eat crow; but I’ll be darned if I hanker arter it.’ – Isaac bolted. Sat. Eve. Post in (1909) 24/1: Some reasons why I left off drinking whiskey, by one who has been there. in Sat. Eve. Post 10 Feb. 1940 23/3: Woolworth Bros. 5 & 10 Cent Store [DA]. Sat Eve. Post 1 July 3: [of a novice railroad engineer] What’ll she do to this chippy runner [HDAS]. Sat. Eve. Post 5 Dec. 17/2: No, none of these twenties are from the new batch, [...] but this half-century is one that we’re all proud of [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 5 Sept. 15/1: About half-past eight Johnny ambled up, decorated with a blue coat, white vest an’ ice cream pants, an’ his hair all slicked down [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 7 Nov. 27: A month later he and his fellows went on ‘graveyard’ shift. ‘Graveyard’ is the interval between twelve, midnight, and eight in the morning . Sat. Eve. Post 24 Oct. 10/1: A mule [...] whose name was Hell-on-wheels [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 14 Mar. 3/1: ‘I’d get a driver who can talk English, too, if I were you, instead of a Spigotty driver. It might save a row if you want to make more than one trip.’ ‘Spigotty?’ I asked. ‘What’s Spigotty?’ ‘Why,’ he replied, surprised at my ignorance, ‘a Spigotty is a native, of course.’. Sat. Eve. Post 3 July 6: Gosh, it hacks me! [HDAS]. Sat. Eve. Post 3 July 7: I’ll expurgate you, you old Dutch Sauerkraut! Sat. Eve. Post 30 July 13/1: Stick him for all you can. You’re a hard worker, and you mustn’t let someone else git the gravy [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 27 Aug. 6/3: Our house [...] cost twenty-five thousand dollars, exclusive of the plumber’s little hold-up and the Oriental rugs [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 16 July 15/3: I want to get hunky with the Sanitary boss [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 2 July 13/3: ‘Hot-air artists’ was a phrase uncoined; the farmer called them ‘jawsmiths’ [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 30 July 19/1: Frank lally-gagged through the first term and came back for the second [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 8 Oct. 4/3: You fellows down here can pungle if you want to, but that frijole-flavored stew doesn’t get a cent from me! [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 13 July 3/1: They sure don’t call ’em hasheries when they cost you eight bones a day up! [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 15 Dec. 6: Referring to a moss-back a brakeman said: ‘Why, he’s still knitting socks for the soldiers’. Sat. Eve. Post 15 Mar. 10: He had a brown heater and a stiff lid and patent-leather gums [HDAS]. Sat. Eve. Post 1March in DN IV:ii 133: I seen the look on your face when the play came off and that little hop-fighter was poking his gat your way. Sat. Eve. Post 1 Nov. 66/4: Scotty always said that when he got the dough from his old man’s estate he was going to have a ring-tail-peeler of a time [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 5 Feb. in DN IV:ii 120: ‘Sergeant Tanner?’ asked the bartender incredulously. ‘The sarge,’ replied Kennedy with some satisfaction. Sat. Eve. Post 15 Feb. in DN IV:ii 127: ‘Coke sniffer,’ explained Tom. ‘They call cocaine crystals snow and a coke user is a sleigh rider.’. Sat. Eve. Post 1 Nov. 64/4: Ben, I want you to plant one of your stooges in that coop with a couple of smoke-pots, so that we’ll get the effect of Jack coming through the thickest of it [DA]. Sat. Eve. Post 15 Feb. in DN IV:ii 127: ‘Coke sniffer,’ explained Tom. ‘They call cocaine crystals snow and a coke user is a sleigh rider.’. Sat. Eve. Post 14 Mar. 4: I am a beefy person who has a stomach, and I am thankful for it. Sat. Eve. Post 14 March 13: You know this town is full of counter-hoppers that go around and tell every girl they meet they are moving picture actors. Sat. Eve. Post 14 Mar. 11: That mug of his would stop an eight-day clock. Sat. Eve. Post 21 March 15: If that long, lean lobster of a Lord William wants to toss off his change, let him.