Word: yam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what I yam...
...applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger...
...Ryan 3L. Boston; Allen A. Schaefer 3L, Valley Center, Kansas: Herace L. Chapman, II, 3L. Columbus, Ohio: John T. Rayes 3L. Boston: Summer Marens 3L. Breakline; Roger P. Marruis 3L, Washington. D. C.: Joseph A. I. Worshsm 3L. Dallas, Texas: William Stix 3L. St. Lonis. Missouri; Francis L. Yam Unsen 2L., Philadelphia; William Dall, Sheldon 2L, Washington, D. C.: Laurence R. Good year 2L, Buffalo, New York; Fred Wolf Jr., 2L, Venirla, New Jersey; and Dwight K. Paysons 2L, Keni, Ghto...