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Word: glassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...thousand glass tambourines

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death at Daybreak | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Garden's sometimes mystifying glass backboards got battered by the Crimson in a one hour practice session Wednesday. Thursday, fluidity in their shifting man to man defense, sorely lacking so far, made its first appearance in a scrimmage against the Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experienced B.C. Quintet Threatens '51's Boston Garden Debut Saturday | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...more class and to more quizzes, thought Vag as he bounced down the Emerson steps, practiced a jump turn across the walk, and set off cross country toward Widener. One more class and two more quizzes-held your glass for more gin fizzes-vacation loomed just behind that Saturday section man and not one bit farther. Vag brightened inwardly, hastened his step, and almost hollered "Track" at the crowd blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

...came "the catastrophe of success"-Broadway's delight over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams (a name he had substituted for his real one, Thomas Lanier Williams, which "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps") suddenly felt like "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is the highest and purest form of religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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