[Ads-l] jive n. antedated to 1925

[Stephen Goranson]

Both OED and Green’s have 1926 for jive, n.
Here’s a Friday, Nov. 7, 1925 use. The Inter-State Tattler (NY, NY) reporting from Cleveland, Ohio. page 14. col. 1
America’s Historical Newspapers
Ray Smith, the Westinghouse boys have woke up on you and your line of jive. “you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

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