[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tin Ear" (OED, = oral insensitivity, 1935)

[Shapiro, Fred]

I should have typed "aural insensitivity."

Fred Shapiro

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From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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Subject: Antedating of "Tin Ear" (OED, = oral insensitivity, 1935)

1933 Watauga Spinnerette June-July 14/2 (Newspapers.com)

First on the evening program was some real toe-tickling jazz dished up by one of the hottest colored jazz bands you ever bent a tin ear to listen to.

Fred Shapiro

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