tragedy plus time

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>
> This is usually attributed to Carol Burnett or Woody Allen, but both of those
> attributions are probably apocryphal like the Twain one.  In 2004 Barry Popik
> posted a citation from the early 1960s here, I believe.

>From 1962:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0403B&L=ADS-L&P=R10225

Steve Allen was quoted saying it in a July 25, 1958 UPI article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QMpCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iKsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7195,1183654&hl=en

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