Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...models (see p. 57). This year the preview was mostly tanks, bomber fuselages, anti-aircraft guns, Army trucks. When, at the end of a six-hour tour of defense production, a Chrysler official sarcastically suggested that the newspapermen might also want to see the new cars, a wag said: "Yeah, we might as well have a look at the by-product...
Cracked a wag: "Changing the name of Piccadilly Circus to Tovarish Square will come next...
...such blow was delivered last year when the British Army ruled that officer-ships, instead of being restricted to graduates of Britain's public (private) and military schools, would thereafter be open also to the ranks. But the British Foreign Service continued to be recruited, as an English wag once put it, from young public-school and Oxford-Cambridge University men of private means possessed of "a knowledge of two or three foreign languages, some familiarity with the graces, and a nodding acquaintance with the muses." Among other guarantees that moneyed wearers of The Old School Tie would dominate...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
...start of the Jayvee race Cornell pressed a momentary advantage, but the story was the same as with the Varsity. By the half-mile mark the Crimson crew, stroked by Colton Wagner, was out in front by a safe margin, and Wag kept the beat at a steady 31 most of the way to the finish, where the timers clocked the Jayvees in 9:31:6. Cornell was a length back and Syracuse over five...