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

...passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks out and he himself at last goes away, his rosy swindle continues to bear fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...other projects will tap undergraduate pockets for the Fund. Drive officials will be offered a table or booth at the annual May Day Bazaar, where they can sell articles--like all-Radcliffe cook books, or Band-Cheral Society "Radclifilana" records--designed especially for the Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Supports Fund With Dance | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

...idea into a magazine. From such backers as Motor Heir Jack F. Chrysler, Tobacco Heir Angier Biddle Duke and Milwaukeean Joseph E. Uihlein Jr. (Schlitz beer), he got more than $500,000. But until he lured buxom Martha Stout away from the editorship of Hearst's Junior Bazaar, Collins had no magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 90-Day Wonder | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...year) until January. He figures that he can add another 10,000 in a year. Then, if as many readers clamor for Kaleidoscope as expected, he will have to decide whether or not to convert his trade magazine into a high-priced competitor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 90-Day Wonder | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...were in the early stages of mumps, and (2) she apparently has no hip-bones. Now everyone knows that the heroines of movies should weigh at most 118 pounds, and should try to have as much bone structure evident as health will permit and Harper's Bazaar will sanction. Suzy Delair breaks those rules and then some. She is as luxurious, as inviting, and as old-fashioned as a feather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jenny Lamour | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

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