early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

J----  H.  C----! "The Young and the Digital" is in an "old-book
depository"?!

Some whippersnapper please tell me what's happening!!!!!!!

JL

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >> Of course, this is all pretty moot for the history of the lexicon as
> long as
> >> the 1933 ex. in HDAS holds up. If not, Grant's line loses its likelihood
> as
> >> 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
> consulted
> >> it at the NYPL forty years ago.
> >>
> >
> I thought Yale might have it in their old book depository ("Long Term
> Shelving"), but the only holdings are:
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> The Young and the Damned
> The Young and the Dead
> The Young and the Digital
> The Young and the Immortal
> The Young and the Old
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> Nice cross-section, but I see no evil.
>
> LH
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