"Don't get mad, get even" (Boston, 1967); "Reformer who gets results" (2000); Big Easy; Virgin paper

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> There was no "Big Easy" dance hall in the early 1900s and certainly not
> one in the "19th century." "Big Easy" was coined in the 1960s and
> popularized by the novel of that name in the early 1970s. It's a

Are there any citations earlier than the novel?

Fred Shapiro

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