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Word: chilli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe it's just the silly season, but it looked Tuesday night as if Harvard had gone publicity mad. Two editors of the CRIMSON were chatting pleasantly and privately with Miss Chilli Williams in her dressing room backstage at the Wilbur Theatre when two members of the Dramatic Club were ushered in. A few minutes later, three members of the Jubilee Committee have into sight. Blinded by polka-dots, everybody had an angle and Miss Williams took all bids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polkadots Before Their Eyes, HDC And Jubilee Grab Chili in Hoopla | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

...flat sandbox floored with fine, clean sand, on the third floor of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, squatted two full-blooded Navajo medicine men. The elder, Charley Turquoise, sported a bushy black mustache that belied his 73 years. The younger one was Dinay Chilli Bitsoey, which means "Short Man's Grandson." They were practicing one of the oldest and most mysterious arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charley and the Grandson | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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