Antedating of "Pastrami"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> 1925 _N.Y. Times_ 20 Sept. XX2  The colorful community [Coney Island] has
> resumed its cold weather role -- that of a thriving residential section
> where the delicatessen stores that have tables for tea and hot pastrami
> are open all night.

I now see in the ADS-L archives that in 1999 Jesse Sheidlower posted that
the OED has a 1920 citation for "pastrami" contributed by Stuart
Silverstein, the third of the "Big Three" lawyer-antedaters written up by
the ABA Journal.

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Public Services     YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  and Lecturer in Legal Research            Yale University Press,
Yale Law School                             forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------