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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Oh, so it's not the sense in question? Whoops! Good to have
checked....

JTS

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:54:11AM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> 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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