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

...Francisco's Chinatown exchange, where operators answer with a cheery "Gay Daw Ho" (number please), speak many dialects and know most customers' numbers by heart, a walkout of all the regular operators caused a wonderful confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Too Bad | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Agent Myron Selznick was divorced by ex-Cinemactress Marjorie Daw. She got custody of their daughter, a settlement of some $1,200 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Born of a poor Irish family, probably somewhere in southern Illinois, handsome, black-haired young Delaney started his acting career about 1910. For two seasons he played the part of Blackie Daw in one of Cohan and Harris' road companies of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingjord. Playing opposite him was Mrs. Kennicott, then Olive Artelle. Delaney left the troupe in 1915 to .go to Australia, where he played the part of The Killer (see cut,p. 51)in Seven Keys toBaldpate in Josephine Cohan's company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Wisecrack | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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