Word: cogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...
...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...
...Cogg-Willoughby: Oh, I don't know . . . Mediterranean...
...this way, reports Potter, Cogg-Willoughby was able to suggest that De Sint probably had a "touch of the tarbrush in his ancestry." De Sint spent the rest of the weekend fully clothed...
There may be some doubt that Stephen Potter is an O.K.-humorist, or that Pottering will become a major pastime in the U.S. Or, it may be necessary to develop some Counterpotters. Cogg-Willoughby, an experienced anti-humor player, might very well say: "Of course, what has gone out of our lives and our laughter is the fine simplicity of an Edward Lear." An American might do worse than to remark quietly but firmly: "Rather heavily on the British side, don't you think...