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Word: hooping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Henry James Went Through | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Wellesley athletes took a wary look at the troubled skies last night, uttered a few choice but lady-like oaths at the weatherman, and retired to their respective training tables for a last minute tune-up in preparation for Saturday's hoop race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Hoops Set to Roll | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...mahogany-colored wonder horse, wanned up for the Kentucky Derby by winning Havre de Grace's $25,000 Chesapeake Stakes. On his back was Eddie Arcaro, the nation's No. 1 jockey, who hoped Citation would be his fourth Derby winner. The others: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Nelson, who copped scoring honors for the day, poured 12 points through the hoop for the losing Puritans, all during the first half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Bellboys Win House Tilts | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

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