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<font size=3>I confess I didn't try to uncover confirmation of 1936 from
a source that gives just snippets (or elsewhere -- I had searched for
years earlier than 1986, the OED's earliest citation).<br><br>
In any case, the 1985 antedating by one year might be genuine, and my
question about who was the coiner remains.<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
At 3/16/2010 11:11 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">> Or does "power
nap" go back to 1936, in The New Yorker, Vol. 12,<br>
> issue 2, page 80, col. 2, snippet view:<br>
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> Boulware is so drunk and so terrified that he collapses (or, as
one<br>
> of the policemen puts it, "is so boxed, his response is to take
a<br>
> little power nap on the sidewalk"), while Cash does the right
thing<br>
> and hands over his wallet.<br><br>
The novel Lush Life by Richard Price was reviewed in an issue of the<br>
New Yorker dated April 7, 2008 (online). I think this text is from
the<br>
review (and the novel). Apparently this is another case of faulty<br>
metadata.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/04/07/080407crbo_books_wood?currentPage=2" eudora="autourl">
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/04/07/080407crbo_books_wood?currentPage=2</a>
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