antedating: "birdboy"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1911 _Morning Oregonian_ (Portland, Ore.) (Jan. 7) 5: Bird Boy Breaks
Altitude Record.

JL

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 1915 _Fort Worth Star-Telegram_  (Oct. 21) 5: She slipped away from home in
> Fort Wayne, Ind.,  and flew away with the then unknown "bird boy" to another
> state.
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> JL
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>  On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Two stupid errors. Shd. read "...(Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson U.P.
>> ... 109:"
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>> JL
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>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > HDAS has 1942, 1952.
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>> > 1918 Jeffery Day in Michael Copp, ed.  _Cambridge Poets of the Great
>> War_
>> > (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2001) 208:  Yet every morn we bold bird-boys/
>> Clamber
>> > into our little buses.
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>> > JL
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