Open Mike, my mother also used "Good night NURSE!" in Minnesota in the late 30s and the 40s. I would more-or-less echo back, "Good NIGHT, Nurse!"

If one of the kids dropped a piece of food on the kitchen floor, and didn't want to eat it because "It's DURRRRRR-ty!", my grandmother would assure us that "You gotta eat your peck of dirt before you die!"

Dave Oesterreich