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Word: wigwam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with fluesse. Women love the Fenway glamor-boys, a preference based partially on the fact that Dave Ferries (he's cute) managed to win 20 games during the war, and partly on the fact that one can follow the team with far less trouble than is necessary at the Wigwam...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

...decades and more of labors by Rabbit Maranville, Casey Stengel, and the immortal Bill Posedel, the Boston Braves are about to bring a pennant to Boston. Of course the Red Sox have won during that stretch-- and mind you there is nothing wrong with the Red Sox--but the wigwam is where the heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Endorsement | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Similar service will be offered for the Dartmouth game on November 9, he added, with planes leaving from Boston in the morning and landing at Lebanon, N. H., a few miles from the Indian wigwam at Hanover. At the same time chartered buses are scheduled to leave Harvard Square, arriving at Hanover in time for the game, and returning to Cambridge the same afternoon. Five dollars covers the cost of the two way ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planes, Busses Ready For Grid Tilts Abroad | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

Like Harvard, Dartmouth has been expending most of its efforts on getting the married students a place to live; two developments are presently under way in Hanover. One, known as Sachem Village, is a permanent project, comprising 48 double family houses, while the other; called Wigwam Circle, consists of FPHA units brought from defense plant areas and set up in a circle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Married Vets First on Housing Planners' Headache List, Bachelors a Poor Second | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

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