1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 279: The two boys are baching it in a cabin with an older man.at bach (it), v.
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 45: A drunk bronx-cheers everybody, salesmen and spectators.at Bronx cheer, v.
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 272: You eat your dinner on the fly so you can finish drillin’ by four o’clock.at on the fly under fly, n.1
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 372: The head electrician or ‘gaffer’ nods at Russell.at gaffer, n.2
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 438: They called us jitterbugs because we wore sixteen-inch cuffs and striped sweaters at the dances.at jitterbug, n.
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 385: All the best leather pushers in the unions are going to throw their dynamite in the ring.at leather-pusher (n.) under leather, n.
1940 (ref. to 1870s) B. Appel People Talk (1972) 328: They called him a rail splitter.at railsplitter, n.
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 268: You’re not supposed to be admitted to a T.B. San unless you have T.B.at san, n.
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 271: The average stiff would come along and dig in with his dirty hands for a piece of ice.at stiff, n.1
1940 B. Appel People Talk (1972) 14: We played sweet over the Park Central, a little swing.at sweet, adv.2