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Word: gingerbread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been carried to new extremes, approaches "tear-dropping" in some cars. But many car buyers will look twice to make sure they are not at last year's show. Most radiator grilles, hoods, fenders and tops are little changed. Externally, the biggest change is a superabundance of "gingerbread." The new cars glitter with chromium, nickel, even golden bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...cile Chaminade. A composer who does not mind being called the American Chaminade is a plump little blonde woman, nearing 50, who is known on concert programs as Mana-Zucca. Last week Mana-Zucca finished her 1,000th composition, a children's musical play called The Gingerbread House. Then, instead of letting well enough alone, she wrote her 1,100st, a song entitled Music I Heard With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gingerbread and Spinach | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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