Questia - Movie

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:

> (But this can't be right. Doyle surely wrote The Lost World in 1912, but
> the movie was 1925. This must be a misdated later edition. The hit comes on
> the first page as a review of the movie, followed by the book itself).

When I search for "movies" on Questia I come up with Richard Harding
Davis, The Man Who Could Not Lose (1911).  So this ties the Washington
Post usage I posted previously as the earliest known citations for "movie"
if the 1902-03 citation in HDAS/OED turns out to be erroneous.

Fred Shapiro


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