Word: okay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finale of Kid Millions is an elaborate sequence in color, showing chorus girls on skates spinning around a gigantic ice-cream freezer. The best songs in the picture, written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, are "Okay Toots," and "An Earful of Music." Sample jokes...
...freight on San Francisco docks alone. More important than the board's powers was its personnel. Of its three members, one was Edward F. McGrady, Secretary of Labor Perkins' assistant and a strong union man whom she had already sent to San Francisco. Another was 0. K. ("Okay") Cushing, San Francisco attorney with liberal labor views. The third, who gave the board its most distinctive flavor, was the Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, 73-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco and advocate of most liberal labor proposals...
Half an hour later came a radio telephone report: "HOLBROOK CALLING NEWARK. NOW OVER NEWBURGH. EVERYTHING OKAY." From Holbrook in NC 12354 no more was heard that day. Next morning, still missing, NC 12354 was the object of one of the greatest plane-hunts in U. S. aviation history. From New Jersey and New York went National Guard and commercial planes. From the U. S. S. Saratoga went two fleet Navy fighters. On roads and mountain byways roamed grey-clad State troopers. All that day and night and all next morning they hunted high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain...
Real slang is invented by persons antisocial enough to resent commonplace terms but too ignorant to use synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherch...
...FLYING UP THROUGH CLOUDS ALL OKAY...