Antedating of "Flack"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Mar 8 13:18:21 UTC 2013


flack (OED, n.2., 1946)

1933 _Variety_ 20 Sept.  Peripatetic Flack Press agent at one of the downtown radio stations.

1933 _Variety_ 7 Oct.  Flack Writes Lyndsley Parsons, Monogram press agent.

1933 _Variety_ 24 Oct.  Flack Quits  Blake McVeigh resigned from the Paramount publicity staff, effective Saturday.

Fred Shapiro

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