[Ads-l] antedating "truth serum"

[Jonathan Lighter]

MW: 1913

1900 _Evening Times_ (Washington, D.C.)  4 [GenealogyBank]: It happens,
interestingly, that this discoverer of the real truth serum previously
testified before a Daly committee of the Montana state legislature.

So early to be somehow suspect. However....

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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