1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 16: What I need is a dash of gumption, a dollop of git-up-and-git, a shot in the arm.at get-up-and-get, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 360: Wallace Pohl [...] today dropped a bombshell on Capitol Hill for the second time in as many months.at bombshell, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 105: These chicken-hearted, butt-licking, limelight-hunting, two-for-a-nickel ward heelers we call statesmen these days?at butt-licking, adj.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 301: He said H.R. would have his neck if he fired a girl with casabas like yours.at casaba, n.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 123: I thought I was hired to make with the typewriter instead of with the googoo eyes.at goo-goo eyes, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 187: Montgomery Ward also sells what I think are known as falsies.at falsies, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 347: Wouldn’t you rather be titillated with some fruity behind-the-scenes gossip about this, your nation’s capital?at fruity, adj.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 198: Charlie laughed so hard he almost bust a gut.at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 341: If you want to learn, ask your hatchet man to take you down for a lesson.at hatchet man (n.) under hatchet, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 338: If your New Haven-trained brain is still functioning, you can pour another little item into the hopper.at hopper, n.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 96: She was advised that [...] her six months’ howl for relief on the switchboard would have to be pigeonholed indefinitely.at howl, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 107: Addressing his reply to some jerk newspaper man in a tank town nobody ever heard of.at jerk, adj.2
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 96: Deedee told me in the john at nine sharp that Larry Ide had been in since a little after eight.at john, n.2
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 123: ‘Shall I announce that you’ve brought your head for the axe?’ ‘If his nibs is receiving.’.at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 188: Doesn’t that pinheaded idiot understand a simple thing like --?at pinhead, adj.
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 299: The way things stand now, you either play or you powder.at powder, v.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 139: It takes more than that dash of gumption [...] that shot in the arm you’ve been telling me about.at shot in the arm (n.) under shot, n.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 88: This baby is worth six or seven hundred smacks to the herd.at smack, n.1
1950 J. Weidman Price Is Right 9: Wapping asked them if they would allow him to take a whirl at a comic strip.at give something a whirl (v.) under whirl, n.