Antedating of "Cosmonaut"; Crying Towel (1929)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:54:51AM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> CRYING TOWEL
>
> CRYING TOWEL--4,190 Google hits, 3,740 Google Groups hits
>
>    Not in OED.  The DICTIONARY OF SPORTS IDIOMS gives no date.

HDAS 1928, citing Zwilling's TAD Lexicon.

JTS