antedating (?) "Katy, bar the door" (1890)

[Stephen Goranson]

Fashion Smiles Approval Without Reserve It Sets the Seal of Commendation upon
the Komoi (Arts & Entertainment)
      The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL) Saturday, April 19, 1890; pg.
6; Issue
26; col A
....And when fashion and the Komoi join hands it is, as the mayor
observed last
night after deep thought, Katy bar the door.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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