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Word: adissimo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother-in-Law (El Cuñadissimo) sat down to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MEDITERRANEAN: No War, No Peace | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...adissimo. Spaniards' designation of Don Ramón as the brother-in-law-issimo is a none-too-gentle jibe at both Serrano and the Generalissimo. Privately they sometimes call Franco "that pulpy olive fashioned into the likeness of a man." For most Spaniards feel that Franco is a wobbler, that Ramón Serrano Suñer is the power behind the fasces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Verge of Battle | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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