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Word: wingo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wingo of Memphis, Tenn. put a headlight on his electric mower and began cutting his lawn at night. This made him miss his favorite radio programs. So he equipped the mower with a radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Instinctively, I might even say professionally, I am democratic," said the Devil. "When I see that many people reading a book, I want to know what they are reading about besides a hero named the Reverend London Wingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & James Street | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Quite unintentional," said the Devil. "I have no religious prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & James Street | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Died. Ivy Wingo, 50, oldtime major-league baseball star, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds when they defeated the Chicago Black Sox in the famed crooked world series of 1919; in Norcross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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