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Word: wig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Mellon faded into senility and Andy and R.B. ran the show. Andy-shy, diffident, frail, and pale-eyed, fingering his thin cigars; R.B.-hearty, affable, horsy, married to Jennie King, a lively lady who wore a red wig-two brothers quite unlike in most respects but exactly alike in their acquisitiveness and the accuracy of their financial calculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Mellon's Patch | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...other traditional anecdotes into an historical tale in which he divided the history of the University into four periods. The "Beer incident" (improper treatment of students) occurred during the early period. "President Dunster's period" included a fire that the University president fought while clad only in nightshirt and wig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Recalls Harvard's Past | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...Funnyman Milton Berle was getting no laughs out of Met Soprano Dorothy Kirsten. Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...which has about 10 million bald or balding men, leading dermatologists say that the condition has many causes, some known, some not, some curable, some not. For ordinary baldness in which the hair follicles die, they say the best "cure" is a toupee or wig. For baldness due to trichotillomania (the compulsion to tear the hair out), the best cure is to stop tearing the hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: De Wonderkapper | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Last Saturday night, on the stage of the Boston Opera House, I carried a spear in Aida--a spear with a big red tassel at the end. My roommate wore a wig and looked like a cocker spaniel...

Author: By Janssen J. Siegfried, | Title: Reporter Puts On Egyptian Guise, Wags Spear at Aida | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

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