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

...Swift Current. Most women hurried to stores, just missed the first nylon sale. They bought clothes for the family, tidbits for the table. Men & women blew themselves to a restaurant dinner, went to a hockey game, or to a movie. Some men watched a few "ends" of a curling bonspiel, took friends to the washroom for a snort or two (with a sharp lookout for the law), got tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Off to the City | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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