[Ads-l] Antedating of "House Rent Party"

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house rent party (OED 1925)

1920 Chicago Whip 4 Dec. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)

The well-known "chitterling suppers" we used to attend ... have been supplanted by the "new-style house rent party."

Fred Shapiro

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