Antedating of "Flack"

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS: 1939.

Aren't these earlier exx. simply references to PR man Gene Flack rather
than common nouns?

JL

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> flack (OED, n.2., 1946)
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> 1933 _Variety_ 20 Sept.  Peripatetic Flack Press agent at one of the
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> wn radio stations.
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> 1933 _Variety_ 7 Oct.  Flack Writes Lyndsley Parsons, Monogram press agent.
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> 1933 _Variety_ 24 Oct.  Flack Quits  Blake McVeigh resigned from the
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> unt publicity staff, effective Saturday.
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