Antedating of "Pinko"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fred, that's amazing !

  JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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pinko (OED, adj. 2., 1957)

1925 _Time_ 29 June The gulf that yawns today between Wall Street and
Vesey Street, where the now pinko Nation is published, was narrower in
those days.

Fred Shapiro


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