Word: cutout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle his Europas; sometimes he passed them to pay hotel bills...
...then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...Subaltern Mary Churchill dropped in at Washington's "Back the Attack" show, peeked over the edge of a cutout display, momentarily turned into a 2½-dimensional...
...away. You, who have chased jazz through dives you would never ordinarily looked at twice, who have chased jazz through dingy little second stores and haggled over the price of a beat-up Louie Hot Five, who have chased jazz from record store to record store after a cutout Goodman Trio, you have your experience to answer...
...Town "walked around the car as he would a horse, feeling its slick sides and the gleaming brass of the headlights." The salesman "stomped the cutout open, and they sat listening to the throaty roar of sound. 'How does she sound?' said the salesman. 'Hit sounds right powerful,' said Old Man Town...