1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy Chapter , All grades pass before you, from the pushful American commercial man interested in a patent medicine, to the proud Indian Rajah with his turbaned suite; from the variety actress to the daughter of a peer, or the wife of a millionaire pork-butcher doing Europe.
1908, John F. Runciman, Haydn Chapter , He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.
1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 189:Buzzaway was one of the privileged (or pushful) people who were sometimes to be seen riding along a road beside the huntsman ….
