Antedating of "Free Lunch"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Is this useful? I would be looking for "no free lunch".
> DanG

Or at least a claim later in the Louisville paper that O'Mara and Gordon thereby disproved the claim that there ain't no such thing.

LH
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> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> free lunch (OED 1848)
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>> 1847 _Louisville Morning Courier_ 29 July 3 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers=
>> )  Messrs. O'MARA & GORDON open their "Washington Exchange," formerly the W=
>> ashington Hall, to-day, with a free lunch.
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>> Fred Shapiro
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