Screwdriver (1952)

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   The LOS ANGELES TIMES digitization is up to 1938 and not the 1950s, but I
thought I'd look for an early "screwdriver" on Ancestry.


   24 December 1952, TIMES-RECORDER (Zanesville, Ohio), pg.9-D, col. 4:
   "BRING ME a screwdriver, please," a customer told a waiter in a cafe here
the other day.
   "A screwdriver?  Is there something wrong with the table, sir?" said the
waiter...who found out, that way, that a "screwdriver" is a mixture of vodka
and orange juice.

(Earl WIlson's syndicated column...Ancestry says this is from 1953, but the
"Merry Christmas 1952" editorial tipped me off.  It's 1952--ed.)