Mah Jong (1922); Bingo (1936)

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MAH JONG

   The revised OED has only one 1922 citation for "Mah Jongg."  All the terrors of spelling a foreign word are here in 1922.

   11 July 1922, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 23:
   Poker and bridge sets and tables--and the Chinese game, "Mah Jongg," as played throughout the Orient and in Europe.
(Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ad--ed.)

   3 December 1922, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 58:
   "Mah-Jong," a book explaining all the fine points of the famous Chinese "Game of One Hundred Intelligences," is to be published immediately by G. P. Putnam's SOns.  This Chinese game, recently introduced into this country, has been described as "a little like rummy, a little like poker, dominoes, and a trifle like bridge."

   11 December 1922, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 12 ad:
An Authentic Exposition of
The Original Chinese Game
Of a Hundred Intelligences
   _PUNG-CHOW_
Also known as Mah Diao, Mah Jong, Ma Chuck, Pe Ling, Sparrow and other translations of different Chinese dialects. (...)
Pung-Chow Company, Inc.
30 Church St., New York City

   12 December 1922, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 10:
   Ma Jung, the ancient Chinese Game--Hand-Carved Chinese Sets.
(Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ad--ed.)

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BINGO

   OED has December 1936.

   26 January 1936, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. XX10:
   Other diversion include keno, bingo, "horse racing," ping pong and the like.

   23 May 1937, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 170:
_GAME OF BINGO_
   _WINS FRIENDS_
_Derived from Lotto, It_
   _Invades the Parlors_