[Ads-l] Headline of the week
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 10 01:13:42 UTC 2017
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> which at that point may still have been Thimble Theatre
It was still Thimble Theatre, wherein Popeye introduced the phrase, "bust a
broadloom." for "dance." It neither took off nor caught on.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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