"close, but no cigar" antedated (1929) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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_Long Island Daily Press_ 18 May 1929 p 16 col 6
[paragraph heading] "Close But No Cigar"
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> The Princeton Alumni Weekly v.29 no. 36, July 2, 1929, p. 1166 col. 2
> [about a class reunion]
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> The long distance trophy, an appropriately inscribed silver cigarette
> case, was awarded to Em Gooch who had made the trip from Lincoln, Neb.
> for the occasion. Several other members came close, but no cigar.....
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