Antedatings of kudocast, kudofest, kudo

[Neal Whitman]

In  this Visual Thesaurus column (subscription required), I take the  compounds 
"kudocast" and "kudofest" back to 1996 and 1998 respectively,  but did not 
include the actual 
citations:http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/kudomania/.
 

 The 1996 attestation for "kudocast", via ProQuest:
 
 
Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news 
services and the nation's press.: [Home Edition]
Berman, Art. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) [Los Angeles, Calif] 10 Sep 
1996: 2.  

>Emmys Draw Well: Sunday's Emmy Awards telecast on ABC walked away a winner from 
>a ratings standpoint, according to preliminary figures. The show attracted 27% 
>of the prime-time audience in the 33 major cities metered by Nielsen Media 
>Research, a 17% increase compared to last year's rating and the kudocast's best 
>results by that standard since 1986.
>
The 1998 attestation for "kudofest":

alt.gossip.celebrities -  2 posts  -  2 authors  - Last post:  Jul 21, 1998
> NBC and Emmycast exec producer Don Mischer have opted against naming a host for 
>this year’s 50th anniversary kudofest, which will be broadcast live by the ...
>https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/alt.gossip.celebrities/cBnMXZj3kdY
>Y
> As for plain old backformed "kudo," the OED has it from 1941 in a book called 
>Hash House Lingo, but it seems to be a singular mass noun: "Good standing with  
>management." Looking for antedatings with the "compliment" sense, the  closest I 
>got was from 1943, via ProQuest:

 
Washington: Both Sides of the Curtain: Administration's Alternative to Rollback 
Program Would Have Been to Permit Wage Increases
>Author 
>Blair, Edson
>Publication title 
>Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly (1942-Current file)
>Volume 
>23
>Issue 
>27
>Pages 
>4
>Number of pages 
>1
>Publication year 
>1943
>Publication date 
>Jul 5, 1943
> 
>  
Neal

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