Word: zippo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice president and European general manager, Pinkley averaged 200,000 miles a year, acquired a travel agent's memory for train and plane schedules. He also developed a fondness for playing with words, congratulating U.P. staffers for stories with plenty of "zoomo," "zippo" and "peppo." What did he think about the zoomo annex, its zippo presses and the prospects of a peppo afternoon paper? Said Pinkley blandly last week: "It's a highly rentable office building, you know...
...said New Jersey's Representative J. Parnell Thomas. Songsters agreed with him. They were grinding out 5? tunes with all the old zippo they could muster, but so far, no Over There. Recent 5? tunes...