Antedating of "Freudian Slip"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/2/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Freudian slip (OED 1959)
>
> 1942 _Jewish Quarterly Review_ July 91 (JSTOR)  The closing formula ... is
> to follow (a mere matter of routine), when a Freudian slip occurs.

There should still be some good antedatings for "Freudian slip" out
there... People were already making bad puns by 1941!

1941 _Washington Post_ 10 Apr. 19/1 Donald Ogden Stewart saw the
psychoanalytic show, "Lady in the Dark," and told Gertrude Lawrence
that she was too dressed up, onstage. "Just once," Stewart suggested,
"you should've come dressed in a Freudian slip."
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--Ben Zimmer