Word: waggishly
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...crime-story writers has been scripting his thrillers for Hollywood. For a long, long time he has had his sixth book-now titled There Was a Young Man-under way. He swears it is almost finished. Queried about his whereabouts (now Manhattan), one of the author's waggish friends quipped: "He's sitting at the Beverly-Wilshire contemplating his novel...
...high point of the proceedings came, when a couple of shapely misses arose and demanded that women be allowed their "constitutional right" to enter the Law School. The riot which ensued broke up the snooting before it was discovered that the "lawyerettes" were nothing more than a pair of waggish second-year students in disguise...