Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from a delegation of Arizonans (who want a veterans' hospital located near Phoenix) a so-called ten-gallon cow-puncher's hat, its color matching the Ford...
Lights Out! In Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. C. L. Eben, conked by a falling street lamp, collected $40 for damages to her umbrella, hat and permanent wave...
...Washington's Export-Import Bank had a cashier's cage, foreign nationals would have been queued up there last week. With Lend-Lease ended (see NA TIONAL AFFAIRS), the borrowers were figuratively standing in front of the Export- Import Bank's 64 desks, hat in hand...
...Flippen, vaudeville veteran, in "Correction, Please," a quiz that fizzed mainly because it was old hat...
...more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...