"laugh-out-loud funny"

[Shapiro, Fred]

This appeared in the Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1966.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: "laugh-out-loud funny"

A blurb-writer's cliche'.

But only since _Ms._ Magazine in 1973 (not verified, but looks real)
and NYT, 1974.

Not common till the '80s.

JL



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