early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Forget it. That's "pounds."

JL

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > Of course, this is all pretty moot for the history of the lexicon as long
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> > the 1933 ex. in HDAS holds up. If not, Grant's line loses its likelihood
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> > a sexual reference. I do not have access to the book cited in HDAS: _The
> > Young and Evil_, by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler (Paris, 1933). I
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> > it at the NYPL forty years ago.
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> But you can buy a copy from the rare-book catalog I linked to yesterday,
> for only £2750.
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