[Ads-l] Antedating of "Geronimo"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a link to the article which credits Private Aubrey Eberhardt
with first using the term during a parachute jump.

Article title: Paramount's 1939 western GERONIMO ... a forgotten movie
with a giant legacy
Author: Ed Howard
https://www.b-westerns.com/geronimo.htm

The above link was posted by Peter Reitan back in January 2017.
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-January/146001.html

Bill Mullins posted a citation dated April 29, 1941 for Geronimo back
in October 2016. I cannot find a citation dated April 19, 1941 from
Bill for Geronimo.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-October/144693.html

Garson

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