[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sugar Daddy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

sugar daddy (OED 1926)

1923 _Portsmouth_ (Ohio) _Daily Times_ 28 Mar. 1 / 2 (Newspapers.com)  John Kearsley Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, multi-millionaire, of Philadelphia, has been revealed as the mysterious "Mr. Marshall," who was the "heavy suger daddy" of Dorothy Keenan King, New York model, who was choloroformed to death in her New York City apartment.

1923 _Lima_ (Ohio) 29 Mar. 13/1 (Newspapers.com)  Anna Pinkweed having come to New York from Bogash, O., has many setbacks, and now we find her rebuking a sugar daddy in front of a restaurant.

Fred Shapiro

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