If you've ever heard it, then you surely remember the song "Big D" in Frank Loesser's musical, The Most Happy Fella (1956). "Big D, little a, double l, a-s!"

Dallas!


17 August 1933, Dallas Morning News, section I, pg. 5:
He came right into the big middle of Big D for Dallas and using a high-powered explosive (all explosives are high-powered) he blew up the jail.

Fugitives:
the true story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, as told by Bonnie's mother (Mrs. Emma Parker) and Clyde's sister (Nell Barrow Cowan)
compiled, arranged and edited by
Jan I. Fortune
Dallas: The Ranger press, inc.
1934
Pg. 73: I'll jump right up and start towards Big D.

February 1946, American Speech, pg. 31:
Big D, n. Dallas.

19 August 1954, New York Times, pg. 27 ad for Sports Illustrated:
...and both Neiman-Marcus and A. Harris & Co. in Dallas who devoted some of their Friday newspaper ads to telling the folks in Big D about our magazine...

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