Word: tickler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...core, Vogue records are put out by smart, young (29) Tom Saffady, president of Detroit's beanstalking Sav-way Co. (TIME, March 27, 1944). Vogue recordings will be chiefly of popular music and will be sold in such outlets as drugstores and motion-picture lobbies. As a sales tickler, Vogue records will have pictures of singers under the surface of the transparent plastic. Price: between 50? and 75? apiece...
...Tickler. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, Bill Kelton tickled his wife, chased her down the streets at dawn, disturbed his neighbors' peace, got a $100 fine and three months in jail...
Last week, via the voices of Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers, this musical tickler was mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S. The top song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
Interesting observation and a Van Wyck tickler was the minimum of injuries sustained by the team which, Lamar ventured, was attributed to the rigorous conditioning classes that the College has been exposed to this winter...
...back seat to subtle wit and biting satire. Critics who are fond of maintaining that the movie-going public will refuse to take in the sort of comedy that appeals to Broadway audiences are going to find the horse-laugh on themselves here, for the Kaufmann-Hart funnybone-tickler has been lifted almost bodily from the stage and set down in celluloid; and it's just as funny...