Antedating of "Sex Appeal"

[Fred Shapiro]

sex appeal (OED 1924)

1912 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 10 Sept. 10 (ProQuest)  If ... brazen bits of
meditated sex appeal are vexatious or unwise, avoid "A Winsome Widow."

Fred Shapiro


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