Antedating of "hate someone's guts"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

[ref] 1911 June 3, Seattle Daily Times, Stenographic Report of Today's
Testimony, Quote Page 8, Column 6, Seattle, Washington.(GenealogyBank)
[/ref]

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You further said: "I hope I may never see my mother alive if I ever
gave the ---- a cent. I never had use for him, and I hate his guts."
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(The dashes above represent a single long dash.)

Garson

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> HDAS 1901: "I hate his intestines."
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> (_Guts_ being regarded in that far-off age as rather vulgar.)
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "hate someone's guts" (Not in OED; New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and
>> Unconventional English: 1918)
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>> _Within The Law_ was a Broadway production in 1912, written by Bayard
>> Veiller. Here's an extract from the book of the 1913 script "by Marvin Dana
>> from the play of Bayard Veiller":
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>> "Was there any bad feeling between you and Eddie Griggs?"
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>> Garson's reply was explicit.
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>> "Never till that very minute. Then, I learned the truth about what he'd
>> framed up with you." The speaker's voice reverted to its former fierceness
>> in recollection, of the treachery of one whom he had trusted.
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>> "He was a stool-pigeon, and I hated his guts! That's all," he concluded,
>> with brutal candor.
>> [END EXTRACT]
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>> Read online: http://archive.org/details/withinthelaw00danarich
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>> Hugo
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