antedating bitching (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

New Yorker, 1945 [date confirmed intrinsically in GB, but neither date
nor quote verified on paper]

http://goo.gl/jEiQm
[snippet only]
> ... comedy entitled "Quit Your Bitchin'."

The story is about "Major General Donald H. Connelly's Persian Gulf
Command", if that helps verification.

     VS-)

On 12/3/2010 2:30 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> OED sense bitch v2 Derivatives "bitching" n 1953
>
> _California Tech_ [student newspaper of California Institute of
> Technology] Vol L #23 4/14/1949 p 2 col 6
> http://caltechcampuspubs.library.caltech.edu/273/1/1949_04_14_50_23.pdf
> "John Rogers, however, was at said Theatre Party with Barbie, whom he as
> fascinated *(26) with his incessant bitching about the njustices [sic]
> of this cruel world." ["*(26)" is a footnote in the original text]
>
> ...

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