Word: dinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Macy's put on sale the latest samples of Ben & Joe's scientific endeavor, a combination felt hat and ballpoint pen. There was a beanie for girls (the Pen 'n Dink, 69?), a Robin Hood hat for boys (the Alpen, 59?) and even a beret-style (with better felt) for adults ($1.69). All were rakishly decorated with a long feather tipped with a ballpoint pen. Benay-Albee has stepped up production to 180,000 feather hats a week...
Eenie meenie minie dink...
...dink controversy ended without any clear-cut decision; the emasculated cane spree stole the "class spirit" that same...
...long-dormant spirit of dink-wearing" has been revived and Nassau, with '50 reveling in its gory glory, looks to the jazz-mad good old days for inspiration...
Already, innocent high school seniors are doomed by the Princetonian. "The issue should be fresh enough in the minds of the Class of '51," it proclaims, "to insure that they will enforce dink-wearing on the Class of 1952 when it will do the most good...