1887 Reading Times (PA) 6 Jan. 2/2: Our pennsylvania farmers could then again wrap up their five-dollar pieces [...] and get some special small purse for the golden Benton mint drops.at Benton’s mint drops, n.
1902 Reading Times (PA) 4 Nov. 7/4: ‘The nigger [...] He’s in the closet’ [...] Dolefulness, bound and gagged, tumbled to the floor. [...] ‘The nigger got kind of gay [...] and I just put him on ice’.at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
1921 Reading Times (PA) 2 May 1/6: Carnival men [...] boasted that they had the police department ‘fixed’, They did not say they could get away with running [a] sweat board [...] but they actually did this.at sweat board (n.) under sweat, n.
1925 Reading Times (PA) 12 Feb. 4/3: My sweetie’s a high-brow and knows his groceries. He’s the worm’s ribs .at bee’s knees, n.
1925 Reading Times (PA) 12 Feb. 4/3: He’d razz heck outa me if I threw any of this cheap slang around. So help me Hannah, he would.at s’elp me bob!, excl.
1936 Reading Times (PA) 29 May 4/8: They are master of the ‘God box’ (a pipe organ), the ‘Sweet Stick’ (a trumpet) , the ‘Agony Box’ (a clarinet) , the ‘Dog House’ (the bass fiddle) and the ‘Coke Stick’ (the saxophone).at agony box (n.) under agony, n.
1936 Reading Times (PA) 29 May 4/8: ‘Ickies,’ I’m told, wouldn’t appreciate [Louis] Armstrong and [Stuff] Smith’s incomparable style, but ‘jitterbugs’ are greatly affected.at icky, n.
1936 Reading Times (PA) 29 May 4/8: They are master of the ‘God box’ (a pipe organ), the ‘Sweet Stick’ (a trumpet) , the ‘Agony Box’ (a clarinet) , the ‘Dog House’ (the bass fiddle) and the ‘Coke Stick’ (the saxophone).at sweet stick (n.) under sweet, adj.1