Antedating of "Disc Jockey"
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Apr 12 17:03:47 UTC 2014
Fred,
Nice discoveries ... but I trust you will rest your eyes adequately!
Joel
At 4/12/2014 12:32 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>disc jockey (OED 1941)
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>1940 _Variety_ 10 Apr. 20/5 (Entertainment Industry Magazine
>Archive) (heading) Singing Cowboy in Wilmington -- Disc Jockey in Waterbury.
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>Fred Shapiro
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>Editor
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>YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)
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