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Word: publicaddress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel, to the winner of a five-lap sprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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