1929 (con. 1918) W.T. Scanlon God have Mercy on Us! (1930) 78: Nagel always tried his damnedest to give us good chow.at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
1929 (con. 1918) W.T. Scanlon God have Mercy on Us! (1930) 31: I had carefully concealed it [...] so the other fellows wouldn’t see it and get the ‘gimmies’.at gimmies, the, n.
1929 (con. 1918) W.T. Scanlon God have Mercy on Us! (1930) 4: What gives me a pain in the neck is all the time we wasted up at Verdun.at give someone a pain in the neck (v.) under pain (in the neck), n.1
1929 (con. 1918) W.T. Scanlon God have Mercy on Us! (1930) 321: Four Krauts came in over the rear wall.at kraut, n.
1929 (con. 1918) W.T. Scanlon God have Mercy on Us! (1930) 4: What gives me a pain in the neck is all the time we wasted up at Verdun in the old trenches when we might have been killing Krautheads.at krauthead (n.) under kraut, n.