Word: buss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Francis Wolley ("Buss") Bronson, author of a recent first novel, Spring Running, onetime (1922) Chairman of the Yale Record (humorous fortnightly) ; to Miss Helen Louise Silkman, in Manhattan...
Engaged. Francis Wollsey ("Buss") Bronson, 25, recent author of a first novel, Spring Running, to Miss Helen L. Silkman, 21, Manhattan bookseller...
...phrase 'So's your old man' came to me while in a rather an amusing situation. It was at a benefit banquet and a group of actors, including myself, were waiting on the tables. A little Italian buss boy volunteered to explain to me my duties. The last sentence of his very broken and totally unintelligible discourse sounded like some remarks about my 'old man,' so I replied 'So is your old man' and the expression started. As you can see the emphasis was, in its first use, on the third word...