Antedating of "Flack"

[Fred Shapiro]

flack (OED 1939)

1937 _Oakland Tribune_ 25 Feb. 13/4 (Newspaperarchive.com)  Whereupon
Paramount elected to cash in on the publicity and the flack as Variety
calls press agents, leaped to his typing machine.

Fred Shapiro


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