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

...declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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