[Ads-l] a page from the playbook

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: 1976

1935 _Binghamton Press_ (Feb. 19) : Old Dame Nature joined the youth
movement early today, tore a  page from the boys' playbook of life, and
rolled snowballs.

1959 _Houston Post_ (May 13) IV 3: He seemed he would lose it on Buhl's
bloop single to left - a page from the
Colt playbook.

Etc. The 1935 seems unique in its generation.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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