[Ads-l] antedating (I think) "flyboy"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 6 00:32:43 UTC 2016


1942 Milton Caniff in _Sunday Oregonian_ (Portland, O.) (Aug. 16) 102:
Imagine that fly-boy having my induction authorization with him.

JL

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