Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover] is more exasperatingly evasive than the wicked wag whose sobbing young wife, when asked the cause of her grief, replied: 'Every time I asked my husband if he likes my biscuits he tells me that I have beautiful eyes.' [Laughter...
...take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...
...Harlem seems to be the best regulated and most content in the U. S. Here longshoremen* heave cargoes by day and frolic by night. Says the author: "It is a far cry from the katydids and crickets of the rural South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker...
...young railroads. Then the B. & 0. sent for him. He assisted its general manager for two years, when the president of the Erie sent for him. In 1910, before he was 50, the B. & 0. sent for him again, this time to be president. His conduct of that line wag such that in 1917, President Wilson picked him to direct the biggest railroading job ever attempted in this country-integrating all U. S. lines under Federal control...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...