antedating "fair to middling" (1827)

[Stephen Goranson]

New-York Spectator, (New York, NY) Friday, October 26, 1827; p.1 col E
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Category: News [col. F]
The exhibition [a fair and cattle-show in Brighton], we believe, was in no
respect extraordinary, but in all respects, as our friend from the "Record"
used to say of the molasses market at Thanksgivig, "from fair to middling."

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

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