Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less anxious, Smith waits until September 16, when Harvard will be entering exam agonies, to take the first step. Connecticut and Vassar all follow within a few weeks. And as they open, Wig grows thin, giggles die down, and the girls hope earnestly that summer friendships are lasting friendships...
...with the close of the first session, the Army Air Force moved in, the pitiful remnant of female Yardlings, 73 strong, were squeezed into Wigg, and the remainder went home. And the crowds of males lining Wig Alley got thicker than ever
...Delta Kappa is the No. 1 professional society of U.S. educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
Labor faced the wartime loss of the most basic of all its economic rights-the right to quit a job and go to work elsewhere. The McNutt Manpower Mobilization Board put on its fright wig last week and announced that war workers were going to have to stay put. would have to quit changing jobs to get higher wages in other labor-short war plants. The Board's reason: pirating of workers by manufacturers who offer higher pay impedes production and upsets wage scales which the Government is trying to stabilize...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...