Blushing in 1915

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/15/2010 10:49 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>Is "blushing" in this sense your coinage? Whencever, I think it's a good
>one, and useful.

I blush while declining.  George Thompson wrote earlier "Even
newspaper reports that denounce jazz music as immoral and associating
it with indecent dancing print the word in full, without blushes."

Obviously I liked the coinage too.

Joel

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