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

...spirit of burlesque. The method is simple: the plot is all about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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