Word: yep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
...Yep!" retorted the Navy's chief drawing himself up importantly. "I'm sailing this afternoon on the Indianapolis." "When do you get there?" "Friday. " "What part of Cuba are you going to?" Havana - direct to Havana." "Have you special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana...