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Word: wig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doll was cheap, with a flimsy dress, a wax face, a scraggly wig. But Monica, the Colonel's little daughter, loved it. The Colonel, when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoppety & Hideous | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...vice chairman of the board) is Paul Kesten, who looked after CBS while Paley was overseas. But Kesten is on leave because of ill health, so the second biggest wig is now worn by Dr. Frank Stanton, 38-year-old former psychology professor, and new CBS president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CBS Shake-Up | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...first thing any seasoned Penn alumnus does at a Mask & Wig show is to consult his program to see who wrote the music. Last week's audience at Philadelphia's Erlanger Theater looked, and was reassured. The Philadelphia dentist who has written the music for the University of Pennsylvania's last eleven shows had done it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tuneful Dentist | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...year's show, called John Paul Jones, closed after 14 performances. Reason: the chorus boys had to return to their classes, which are still on a wartime speedup schedule. The 1946 tour was one of the shortest, but its music was some of the best in the Mask & Wig Club's 58 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tuneful Dentist | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...that most Astromental married couples managed to produce the regulation one-child family). They chirped away politely in Monolingua-the global language in which it was impossible to say anything unkind. "Is this your first trip to California?" asked one of the ladies, who looked devastating in the gold wig that covered her bald astromentality (all Astromentalists were bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 100,000 Years Hence | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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