Word: nag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...
...earth did you take that old nag? Look at my coolie! There's a high stepper...
...Calver can do is to nag his clients to eat hot lunches, watch their weight and have yearly checkups. The Navy recently made Dr. Calver a temporary rear admiral and his grateful patients have passed a bill forbidding the Navy to transfer him without consent of the Congress...
...evening of dancing. The price will be as low as possible. Transportation will be taken care of by the committee. Speaking of Logistics, Don Brown, of "Weasel" fame, is planning to make up a coterie of horses and wagons to carry all who might like to follow the plodding nag. But more of that later. So, look around for possible date--as if you could...
...make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...