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

...radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: State of Broadcasting | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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