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Word: thingamajig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princess Cicogna's the talk was about Allied officers. The English and American officers are darlings too. So helpful. So impressionable. Lieut. General Mark Clark came to dinner. Brigadier General Edgar Erskine Hume, too, who ran that A.M.G. thingamajig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Uniformity | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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