Terror Dome; Dallas Morning News (1885-present?)

[Mullins, Bill]

Barry -- You cast a pretty wide net with your request for help.  If your
questions were a little more specific (can you find XX before YY?), it
would help.  But I did turn up a couple of antedatings (beyond what I've
already posted).

Like I've already said, the interface and the OCR blow, big time.
Apparently there is no way to search for a phrase -- putting two words
in quotes doesn't limit in any useful way.  There is an ADJx operator
(where x is the number of words separating one word from another,
default is 1, or words are adjacent).

Bill


> > ...
> > DALLAS MORNING NEWS  Can someone look up
> >  "Tex-Mex"

too many false positives -- need a date for a starting point.

> > and "taco" and

too many false positives -- need a date for a starting point.

> > "fajita" and

_NO_ legitimate returns (!!!)

> > "nacho"

too many false positives -- need a date for a starting point.

> >  "corn chips" and

Is 1933 the date to beat?

> > "Frito pie" and

first return for "frito ADJ pie" is 1967.


> > "pecan pie" and

The earliest I see in the archives is 1901.

"Texas Pecan Pie" [recipe title] Mrs. Matt Bradley, Dallas Morning News
 1898-01-23  Page 6 col 5.
"Knowing that The News is strictly for Texas and for Texas enterprises,
and thinking that it might be of interest to many Texas kitchen queens,
I herewith inclose you a copy of the recipe for making what I have
decided
to call in honor of the great Lone Star state, "The Texas Pecan Pie."
   Having never seen it in any paper or cook book I have read, and
failing
to find any one who had ever eaten it, I feel justified in claiming to
be its originator and the right to christen it."

> > "burrito"

Is 1934 the date to beat? [no obvious antedatings; too many false
positives.  Nothing for "fried ADJ burro"]

> > and "chimichanga"

Is 1970 the date to beat? [only one cite returned for
chimichanga/chimichonga/chimichango -- 1977]

> > and "tortilla curtain"
no returns


> > and "wetback"
OED has 1929
many false positives for "set back" and "get back"

[attributive usage]
"Seek to Enforce Immigration Law" Washington Bureau, Dallas News
1923-07-01  Part Four Page Fourteen col 1.
"Information coming from inspectors show many coming over are of the
wet-back class, or a Mexican who has waded the Rio Grande, thus avoiding
head
tax, literacy test, and other restrictions of the law."

[noun]
"Immigration Will Get Texas Interested"
1928-12-05 Part 2 Page Eighteen col 3
"A few of the laborers become "wetbacks," perhaps, and do not return to
Mexico, just as a few of them turn out to be lawless and troublesome."

> > and "margarita + cocktail"

OED has 1956 for the drink; have you already antedated that?
Nothing useful for "Margarita" found from 1951 to 1956. (too many ladies
named "Margarita".)


> > and "No  way, Jose"

OED has 1979; is this your best also?  Nothing obvious.

> > and "big hat--no cattle"

Searching "hat ADJ2 cattle" from 1950 - 1971 gets nothing useful (but
would catch both "big hat" and "all hat").  Too many returns of "that"
for "hat".