"Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Stephen Goranson sent us:

> YBQ has "Continent Isolated" from 1932.
> A Google Book snippet is incorrectly dated 1930, but the
> following is confirmed on paper:
>
> August, 1931. Bulletin of the Taylor Society vol. 16 no. 4
> "International Planning: A Scotch Educator's View," James
> Alexander Bowie, 150-151, here 150.
>
> [...]

A couple years ago I went looking for the variant involving "channel
storm[s]"/"continent isolated" and found a couple instances that also date
to 1931.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0707C&L=ADS-L&P=R11162

I haven't looked since my initial search, but it might be worthwhile -- in
the interest of tracking down an origin for the general anecdote -- to throw
"channel storm[s]" in with ones search parameters.

-- Bonnie

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