[NOT] "Open a side door", 1773, antedates 1930

[Joel S. Berson]

Jesse,

I didn't have page/col. before from my secondary source -- and,
unfortunately, I don't now from the primary source (EAN)!  The place
is page 3, col. 2 -- but there I read it as "opening a wide door"!!

Alas,
Joel

At 7/13/2010 10:16 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:38:50PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > "Open a side door" -- less heinous than a back door?
> > -----
> > In a complaint about the Tea Act and the exclusive trading rights of
> > the East India Company, "Joshua the son of Nun" wrote in the
> > Massachusetts Spy (Isaiah Thomas's Whig paper) on Oct. 14, 1773:
> >
> > "If this is not opening a side door for the direct entrance of
> > despotism such a thing is not possible in nature,"
>
>Do you have a page and column reference for this?
>
>Thanks.
>
>JTS

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