Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said a political wag: "There's a law against bigamy but none against trigamy...
...Alan Patrick) Herbert, wag, Senior Member of Parliament for Oxford University and Britain's most whimsical reformer, has embarked on a new crusade.* Bedridden with a bad foot late last year, Herbert did not count wallpaper patterns but renamed the stars. He found their old names "queer, unworthy and inept." He has renamed some 300 stars, for a starter...
...become a Wag, a dog must be a pure-bred or crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...
...stylish stouts, Sarah's extreme leanness seemed undesirable. Said a wag: "An empty carriage stopped, and Sarah Bernhardt got out." Suddenly Sarah found herself; she began to recite poetry- "as the nightingale sings, as the wind sighs, as water murmurs." At 35 Sarah became European Actress No. 1, and "the divine Sarah...
Once more John L. Lewis has proved himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members...