[Ads-l] slight antedating of "drugstore cowboy"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: Nov. 1922.

1922  _Daily Oklahoman_ (Oklahoma City) (Oct. 8) A-2 [Newspapers.com]: Lo,
The Jellybean Is Now the Drugstore Cowboy....Habitat, Broadway and Main.

JL

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