[Ads-l] Antedating of "Conga Line"

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conga line (OED 1953)

1938 Daily News (New York) 30 Aug. 36/3 (Newspapers.com)

ZaSu Pitts, Jack Dempsey, Peter Arno, Harriet Hilliard, Ozzie Nelson, [etc.] in the conga line at the Havana-Madrid.

Fred Shapiro

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