Cookie Pusher (1924); Biscuit Shooter (1886)

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COOKIE PUSHER

   DARE has 1950 for "a waiter or waitress."  OED has 1942.  It appears that "cookie pusher" was coined by Hugh Gibson in 1924.
   I thought that I'd posted this to ADS-L, but it's not in the archives.


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
  IN THE PRESS BOX; WITH BAXTER; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Feb 29, 1924; pg. S3, 1 pgs

  FOREIGN SERVICE RICKETY" -- GIBSON; Our Minister to Poland Says U.S. Diplomatic Corps Is Inefficient -- Needs Thorough Overhauling; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jan 27, 1924; pg. XX5, 1 pgs

  Gibson for New Diplomacy Without White Spats and Tea; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jan 18, 1924; pg. 1, 1 pgs

  No "Cookie Pushers" For Diplomatic Corps; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Jan 18, 1924; pg. 1, 1 pgs

  POST-SCRIPTS; By GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Jan 18, 1924; pg. 1, 1 pgs
("Hugh Gibson, our minister to Finland, advocates chasing the tea hounds and cookie pushers out of the diplomatic service, but who, then would compete in the matrimonial market with foregin noblemen four our heiresses?")

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BISCUIT SHOOTER

  DARE has 1893 for "a cook" and 1913's DIALECT NOTES for "a waiter or waitress."


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
  FATHER SHATTERS LOUISE'S ROMANCE; Parent in Kansas City Identifies Girl from Alaska and She Loses Film Chance. WAS NEVER A WAITRESS Admits She Was a Telephone Operator and Lays Claim to Knowledge of Seven Languages.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jan 29, 1917; pg. 9, 1 pgs

  SOMETHING DOING IN THE COUNTRY.; The Washington Post (1877-1954), Washington, D.C.; Jun 18, 1906; pg. 6, 1 pgs

  A NEBRASKA INCIDENT.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Aug 2, 1886; pg. 5, 1 pgs
("Armstrong, the fellow who attacked a dining-room girl at Miller's Depot hotel, Norfolk, and got a couple of several cracks over the head with glass tumblers thrown by the muscular biscuit shooter, which fractures his skull, has since died.")