[Ads-l] gismo, antedated (?) to May 1939

[Stephen Goranson]

Leatherneck, May, 1939, page 35 col. 2, Motor Transport, by Looey [[brackets added]], from image via ProQuest:


"Butch Nyden has returned to us [[to Quantico, Va.]] from Shanghai, where he found out that Gin Rickey's aint those two wheel gismos you ride in out there."


Stephen Goranson

http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/

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