[Ads-l] ".... until morale improves"

[Pete Morris]

Previously antedated to 1966.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2009-December/094631.html


Here's an earlier cite:

"... and all leave is cancelled until morale improves."

All Hands,  number 538
November 1961
cartoon page 55.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/All_Hands/hZ9wlFGVig4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22until+morale+improves%22&pg=RA10-PA55&printsec=frontcover

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