[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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