Date:    Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:34:58 -0400
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: "...And the Horse You Rode In On"
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<br>On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Barry A. Popik wrote:
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<br>>      Safire credits Fred Shapiro's research with the earliest "high moment,"
<br>> although my guess is that it dates much earlier than the Civil War.
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<br>Safire's _Southern Literary Messenger_ citation (I think it was 1839, I
<br>don't have the information handy) was supplied by me also, so Safire and I
<br>both already have it before the Civil War.  But I'm sure it goes back
<br>centuries before that, I just gave Safire what I was able to find in a
<br>half-hour of research (he was under deadline, as usual).
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