1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 206: All the small fry are so common and smart-Alecky – that’s the only word.at smart-aleck, adj.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 200: I can never do much with anything unless I am fairly boiling over with it.at boil, v.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 199: I consider that Mr. Stagg pulled a bone when he said Peter Whiffle was original – it couldn’t be more derivative.at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 180: Two of the antitheses in the web of them which formed Elinor Wylie were her love of elegance, and what she called her ‘johnny-cake side.’ The first she attributed to her Philadelphia mother [...] the second to her father, a product of ‘up-State’ Pennsylvania, with ancestral roots in New England.at johnny cake, n.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 134: Campaspe picks up Waldo Frank’s Dark Mother under the impression (according to Carl!) that it was called ‘Darkey Mothers’.at darkie, adj.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 264: I’ve been rushed to destruction with two volumes of poky plays and some other childish writing.at pokey, adj.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 140: Nora Holt sang ‘My Daddy Rocks Me’ in the last moments.at rock, v.3
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 135: The samples he gives of the letters are screaming!at screaming, adj.
1931 E. Clark Innocence Abroad 119: A terrific slating of the Yankee, now and then, would be fine stuff.at slate, v.1