I had thought that someone (Barry?) had posted an antedating of OED's 1940 quote for _molotov cocktail_ 'type of makeshift incendiary bomb', but the only examples I can find in the archives or my own saved mail are from 1944 or later. Can someone either remind me of what I was thinking of, or provide some other pre-1940 cite? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower OED