Slight antedating of "crew(hair)cut" (1935)

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:00 PM -0400 7/22/07, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>From Google Books (hence not 100% reliable):
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Well, it does appear that the book came out on March 1, 1930
(verified the old-fashioned way, on Wikipedia), so if the quote
occurs there (I didn't save my old copy, I'm afraid), the antedate is
real.

LH

>
>Franklin W. Dixon, _The Missing Chums_ [Hardy Boys] (Grosset &
>Dunlap, 1930): p. 56:
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><<He was young and strong, with a blond crew cut.>>
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