antedating: "birdboy"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1915 _Fort Worth Star-Telegram_  (Oct. 21) 5: She slipped away from home in
Fort Wayne, Ind.,  and flew away with the then unknown "bird boy" to another
state.

JL

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Two stupid errors. Shd. read "...(Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson U.P.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > HDAS has 1942, 1952.
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> > 1918 Jeffery Day in Michael Copp, ed.  _Cambridge Poets of the Great War_
> > (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2001) 208:  Yet every morn we bold bird-boys/ Clamber
> > into our little buses.
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> > JL
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