The Enduring Appeal of 'How Do You Like Them Apples?'
From the Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1928 to the San Francisco Examiner in 2016.
One of the earliest newspaper uses of the phrase “How do you like them apples?” was in 1928. In the Princeton Alumni Weekly, future New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote:
Arrayed in “beer suits,” the Class of 1928 stepped forth after the holiday to tell the world that they are actually Seniors. The design on the back this year – which is the only part of the outfit which is materially altered from year to year – portrays an ebullient student chopping off the head of a terrified and bewhiskered professor.
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