early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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>> Of course, this is all pretty moot for the history of the lexicon as long as
>> the 1933 ex. in HDAS holds up. If not, Grant's line loses its likelihood as
>> a sexual reference. I do not have access to the book cited in HDAS: _The
>> Young and Evil_, by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler (Paris, 1933). I consulted
>> it at the NYPL forty years ago.
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I thought Yale might have it in their old book depository ("Long Term Shelving"), but the only holdings are:

The Young and the Damned
The Young and the Dead
The Young and the Digital
The Young and the Immortal
The Young and the Old

Nice cross-section, but I see no evil.

LH

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