Greasy Spoon (1912); Manicotti

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GREASY SPOON

   The HDAS has 1918 for "greasy spoon."


   21 January 1912, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, pg. 3B?, col. 2:
No matter what the time of day, be it morn or eve or noon
You can gently lead him by the hand, to the "sign of the greasy spoon,"
And he'll face a meal of onions, beef steak, and hay and cream
And a hundred Mamie-Taylor's to the scandal of Joe Bean.
(...)
--SIS FALVEY.
December 17, 1911.

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MANICOTTI

   OED and M-W's 11th have 1947.  I was looking for the Tyrone Power story.


   23 September 1946, DIXON TELEGRAPH (Dixon, Illinois), pg. 5, col. 4:
      _Tuna Manicotti_
(Recipe--ed.)