Word: knickknacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love or Money (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by Barnard Straus) was kept from becoming a minor Broadway debacle through a Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year...
Keep a Secret. The ruling house of the knickknack premiums is the Robbins Co. of Attleboro, Mass. It manufactures its marvels inside a 50-year-old, grey frame building, ships them out in boxes labeled with descriptions vague enough to baffle spies presumed to be alert for any new top-secret Robbins item...
Triple Decker. Paris shows "open" on three successive nights. The first night is a dress-and dressmakers'-rehearsal. The invited audience is made up of important couturiers, stage designers, technicians, anyone who has contributed a necklace or a knickknack.* The performance is halted to smooth out wrinkles in the costumes, or (often at the most exciting moments) to take publicity shots...
...knickknack: any little thing...
...suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity shop on the Rue St. Honore, where it had been purchased for $3.50. At this point King Zog paid the rent...