Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baron. One Communist up for election was Rio's chief wag, the gentle, bearded Apparicio Torelly. A celebrated journalist, he is known to most Brazilians as the Baron of Itararé. He took that pseudonym after writing, during one of the country's revolutions, a series on the Battle of the Itararé River-a battle that occurred only in his typewriter...
...subjects went so deep asleep that Hypnotist Peter Casson, in the flesh, had to wake them up. As a result of this private test, BBC decided to ban hypnotists from telecasting, pending further experiment. (One wag promptly suggested that there was no danger of British listeners being hypnotized to sleep; the somnolent BBC needed hypnotists to keep them awake.) "My goodness," said one BBC official, "think what would happen if everybody had a television set-as everybody will shortly-and a Hitler sort of fellow started working on them...
...wish to direct your attention to a statement appearing on p. 32 of the Oct. 14 issue of TIME, wherein I was referred to in a vicious and unwarranted manner. Whether a literary wag said it or whether TIME is using that as a cover is immaterial. The printing of such a statement in TIME is inexcusable and the only conclusion that I can arrive at is that it was deliberate inasmuch as I was the only one singled out in such a manner...
...wag of the time suggested that thereafter scenes would have to be "chemisetted" instead of "sh-fted...
...There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always Sticks Twice. The play had been rehearsed under heavy wrappings of secrecy. Almost nobody in the audience was sure what it was about, though some had paid $25 a seat to find out. But some people were already...