Palm Beach=cheese sandwich (1942); Waco=Dr. Pepper (1938)

[Mark Mandel]

Dear kindly social worker,
They say go earn a buck.*
Like be a **soda jerker**,
Which means like be a schmuck. *
It's not I'm anti-social,
I'm only anti-work.
Gloryosky! That's why I'm a jerk!

"GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE", from West Side Story, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
1957

Not an antedate, just a high point in memory.

* That's the stage lyric from the official West Side Story
site<http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/krupke.html>.
The movie lyric has "get a job ... be a slob", and I remember it (from the
cast album?) as "earn some dough ... be a schmo".

m a m

On 7/1/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm pleased to see that my memory of "soda-jerker" is correct. And I
> once owned a Palm Beach suit.
>
> -Wilson
>
>

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