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Word: wagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waters, Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife of Rhode Island's Governor, answered tersely: "Pluto." Among those it has interviewed Vox Pop includes Jock Scott, a Scot who has walked around Africa, the U. S. and Canada, and bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into electric fans. Done up in a shower cap with windshield wiper, rubber gloves and raincoat, Moran explained his theory of release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vox Pop | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...five oarsmen selected last Thursday by Tom Belles and his cohorts to stroke the heavy crews are Jack Wilson, last year's varsity stroke, "Wag" Wagner, Bristol Hall, Buck Anderson, and Bus Curwen, stroke of the 1943 boat last season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crews Ring Down Curtain on Rowing Season | 11/7/1940 | See Source »

After the second game of the World Series last week, a wag remarked that it looked like a Two-Buck Series. Heroes of the first two games were two Bucks: Detroit's Buck Newsom and Cincinnati's Bucky Walters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two-Buck Series | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Quipped a parliamentary wag about Sir Thomas Inskip's appointment in 1936 as Defense Minister: "There has been no similar appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul." Winston Churchill remarked that Sir Thomas was perfectly right in saying that the Army was being mechanized- "in the sense that its horses are being taken away from it." Said Sir Thomas: "Sometimes I do not feel very well equipped for my office." He held it three years. Just after the British troops sailed for Norway without proper weapons or supplies, Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin was photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program is riotously spontaneous, with everyone from studio technicians to station announcers taking part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Mexican Air | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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