Word: wag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
Said a Delhi wag: "Two powerful personalities who know very little about each other are now colliding. The impact, on America and on Nehru, should be terrific...
...hearts of farce writers: the plight of a manly newly wed (Gary Grant) who is prevented by twists of the plot from getting to bed with his bride (Ann Sheridan). Here the situation is rigged on a fresh but frail device that crumbles under ponderous handling. To join his WAG Lieut. Sheridan, whose outfit is leaving Germany, Frenchman Grant must be deployed as an "alien spouse" through the U.S. Army's channels for delivering European brides to their G.I. husbands...
...wag once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...
Sugar? The 30-page program which last week arrived at the door of every Labor Party bigwig was entitled Labor Believes in Britain. One wag recalled Carlyle's comment to a young lady who declared that she had accepted the Universe: "By God, Madam, you'd better!" A lot of work had gone into its cherry-red, pink-striped covers. For over a year, an army of party researchers had dredged up basic facts. Recently, during a nice weekend on the Isle of Wight, the 27-man Labor Party executive, sparked by Morrison, sifted the data and started...