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From: td@alice.UUCP (Tom Duff)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: phrase etymology: "swell" (actually `make love')
Message-ID: <3473@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 13:41:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 13:41:53 1985
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The phrase `make love', meaning `have sex' was in use as early as 1941.
See, for example, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, written in 1940 and '41
(although published in the mid '70s.)