“Pulpit. A Yorkshireman's instruction to pound something to paste.”
Professor Branestawm's Dictionary, Puffin, (1973)
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Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) American politician
Letter to Eunice Lovejoy https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA192#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1860s
“I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Said to William Westmoreland in 1960 when Westmoreland assumed the post of Superintendent of West Point.
Cited in [Atkinson, Rick, The Long Gray Line, First Pocket Books printing, 1991, Simon & Schuster, New York, ISBN 0-671-72674-9, p. 79, Year of the Tiger]
1950s
“The past is just something that's over.”
Christopher Isherwood book A Single Man
Source: A Single Man
“Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman
At the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), as quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1815).
“Whether I pound or am being pounded,
all the same there will be moaning!”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Peer Gynt, declaring that no matter what he does, it is not what people want, Act I, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 190.
John Allen Paulos book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Section 3, “Lifestyle, Spin, and Soft News” Chapter 23, “Tsongkerclintkinbro Wins” (p. 106)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)
“Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.”
David Gerrold book When HARLIE Was One
Section 16 (p. 82)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)