[Ads-l] antedating (I think) "flyboy" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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1940 Milton Caniff in _Salt Lake Tribune_ "Terry and the Pirates" (Oct. 20) page number undetermined
"What's curlin' your eyebrows, fly-boy?"

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> 1942 Milton Caniff in _Sunday Oregonian_ (Portland, O.) (Aug. 16) 102:
> Imagine that fly-boy having my induction authorization with him.
> 
> JL
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> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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