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

...Unsightly Iraqi national headdress, resembling oversized U.S. Army fore-&-aft caps, known to Westerners as the only headgear a man can) leave on a Middl'e East hatrack without fear of theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Hashimite Huddle | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...animal, a common Black Bear or Euarctus Americans, formerly inhabited the Spee clubhouse, where he had stood for many years as a combination bar and hatrack in the front hall. He was last seen there late Friday night, highball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speemen Left Holding Bag In Mysterious Mascot Theft | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...most dramatic of U.S. race horses came into the world a goblinish sort of creature. As he grew, unlovely bones poked out his chestnut hide like tentpoles. He had an elongated neck. He slept standing up. The Galloping Hatrack looked like an appropriate steed for Sleepy Hollow's legendary horseman, but he had his own legend to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Galloping Hatraclc | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Galloping Hatraclc | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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