1922 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 266: Edith’s pretty awful sedate.at awful, adv.
1922 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 267: Open the door, bub, so’s we can hear.at bub, n.3
1922 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 268: My gee! It’s as hot as ever I felt for this time of year.at gee!, excl.
1922 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 1 July 266: She told me to fly my kite! She’s off me!at go fly a kite! (excl.) under kite, n.
1924 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 17 May 289: That blah-blah-blah-blah, and so on.at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
1924 R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 17 May 285: Deprived of his sense of proportion, the cold-eyed, stern-jawed Northerner [...] will listen open-mouthed to the jazz and ballyhoo of the Florida land promoters.at jazz, n.
1931 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 11 July 308: Shiftless is drunk as a fiddler’s dog.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1939 R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 396: I’ll [...] ’ail a bumboat and go ashore myself.at bum-boat, n.
1939 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 399: He raised his voice in a rollicking blue-water chantey.at chant, n.
1939 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 14 Jan. 400: Turkey! Sparrowgrass! Plum pudding!at sparrow-grass, n.
1944 R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 8 July 434: Okay, I’ll go back and beat the breeze.at beat the breeze (v.) under beat, v.
1944 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 8 July 434: Okay, I’ll go back and beat the breeze.at beat the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
1946 in R. Butterfield Sat. Eve. Post Treasury (1954) 23 Nov. 480: You’re crazy, you damn apple-knocking liar!at apple knock, v.