Earliest: I used to work in Chicago -- I used to but no more. I used to work in Chicago, In a hosiery store. A lady asked for some garters, I asked the kind she wore: "Rubber," she said. Rubber I did. I did – but not any more. From "National Lithographer," Vol. 30 (1923). Also in "The Squib" (Massachusetts Agricultural College [now U. of Massachusetts, Amherst]), likewise 1923.
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