OED Appeals (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

The current OED Appeals List has:

there is a rotten/bad apple in every barrel:
antedate 1971

"Report of the Expose and Ethics Committee of the P.C.A.M. -- I.A.M" by
Hubert Brill
_The Linking Ring_  v 19 #8 , Oct 1939 p. 606 col 1.
"Unfortunately there is always one rotten apple in a barrel, which
brings me to the unpleasant task of describing the Walter Wanger
situation in regard to the current production "Eternally Yours". "



artily adv.:
antedate 1961 (although the online entry has cites from 1931 and 1954)

" The Sob of Annunion." By  SYDNEY CARTON _The Magic Wand_ VOL. XI. No.
115.  OCTOBER--NOVEMBER, 1922.  p. 200
"Cortorm Bending had photographed the Sob and Jill 0. Ginn (an
unsweetened damsel) had Artily directed the whole. "


smart casual:
antedate 1982
(now antedated to 1966)

[ad for M. T. Shaw Inc.] _Saturday Evening Post_ 4/21/1956 p. 129 col 3.
"it's shaw shoes for that smart CASUAL LOOK!" [upper and lower case as
they appear in the ad]

[ad for Albert-Richard] _Saturday Evening Post_ 9/23/1950 p. 136 col 1.
"You get smart casual styling, superb tailoring, warmth and comfort
without bulk, and the newest and best in fabrics and leathers . . .
jacket-wise, just what you need to make your life in the open more
pleasant."

put/set the cat among(st) the pigeons:
antedate 1950
(now antedated to 1945)

"Editorial" by Wilford Hutchinson _Wilford Hutchinson's Conjurors
Chronicle_ v 5 # 10, Feb 1924. p. 461
"Mr. Henry Bate, who is well known in the magical world and who, we
understand, is a member of the Inner Magic Circle, has evidently, as the
saying is, "put the cat among the pigeons," or in other words upset at
least two members of the Magic Circle, who we believe are not of the
"Inner" or "Associate" class, with his article in the <i> Strand
Magazine</i>, and they are apparently very much upset according to the
articles that have appeared in the <i> Magical Observer</i> and <i> The
Magical Monthly</i>."

unsung hero(ine):
antedate 1934
(now antedated to 1899)
   "An Unsung Hero" [article title] _The Atchison Daily Globe_,
(Atchison, KS) Thursday, September 20, 1894; pg. 2;  col D


  "Local Matters" Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Monday,
April 17, 1882; Issue 89; col 4
"The subject of the lessons to-day will be as follows:  high class, puff
paste, oysters vol au vent, potato croquettes, dressed haddocks, white
sauce, stork for jelly and fish a la conquest; plain class, boiled apple
pudding, stewed steak, haddock stuffed and baked, boiled vegetables and
treacle tart."


pivotable (a.):
antedate 1899

 "All about the House " The Milwaukee Journal, (Milwaukee, WI) Friday,
March 09, 1894; pg. 5; col B
"The same decorator says that making a table a pivotable point about
which the other furniture of the room is arranged is a bad idea, but all
of us who have pleasant memories of the family gathered when the day's
work was over, will beg to differ with him."


Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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