[Ads-l] "Gizmo" 1938, ~August and October

[Stephen Goranson]

And two months earlier as Gismo:

Leatherneck August 1938, p. 52 c.2


COMPANY D, FIRST BATALLION

By Gismo


SG


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Leatherneck, October 1938 p.28 col.2 (via ProQuest)

"DOG" COMPANY DOPE

by "Gizmo"



Stephen Goranson

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




Previously reported on ads-l (May 4, 2015), from 1939:

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

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