antedating of "gal Friday" (1932)

Sam Clements SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Thu Jan 22 06:15:54 UTC 2004


M-W has 1940( The movie 'Front Page', which almost certainly POPULARIZED the term).

>From a 1932 Walter Winchell column using newspaperarchive.

31 March 1932.  _Nevada State Journal_  4/4

<<...And so saying--his beautiful sekkaterry tightened up her ahems!--and Garbo'd: "I t'ink I go home, now"--Your Gal Friday.

Could this be a first use of "Garbo'd" as a verb?

Sam Clements



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