Antedating of "Ambulance Chaser" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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A slight antedating:

1896 _The Sun_ (NYC) 30 May p. 7 col 2
"The "ambulance chaser" who waits to learn of an accident from the
newspapers is regarded now as a very unenterprising lawyer."

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> ambulance chaser (OED 1897)
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> 1896 _Daily Inter Ocean_ (Chicago) 4 June 4 (America's Historical
Newspapers)
> The "ambulance chaser" who waits to learn of an accident from the
newspapers
> is regarded now as a very unenterprising lawyer. -- New York Sun.
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> Fred Shapiro
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