[Ads-l] Antedating of "Conga Line"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fred Shapiro wrote:
> 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.

Excellent "conga line" citation which topnotch researcher Bill Mullins
also found and posted back in 2018.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2018-August/152356.html

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