Antedating of "Jazz" as Verb

[George Thompson]

Wilson Gray recently wrote:
I'm now a "snowball," as used to(?) be said by whites, a grey-haired old black man.

I see that a just-published biography of Warren Buffet is called "Snowball".

But I suppose the allusion is different.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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