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Word: chintz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...dirndl of highly glazed chintz, "Yes" to the bashful young man at the dance, "No" to the man who's been living in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not in the Textbooks | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...Actress Bergman was in a chintz-decorated three-room clinic suite, the U.S. public learned from its front pages.* "She is so taken with the tot," glowed one dispatch. Said Dr. Guidotti: "Miss Bergman is one of the happiest mothers I have ever known . . . The baby is one of the healthiest and prettiest I ever delivered." Flowers soon filled one room of the suite, and congratulatory messages flooded in, many from the U.S. (among the notable well-wishers: Marion, Davies and Ernest Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Basket of Ricotta | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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