Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg had merely meted out the traditional victor's law over the vanquished. When a newsman asked General Eisenhower whether he believed he would have been hanged by the Germans, had the war gone the other way, Eisenhower answered smilingly: "Such thoughts you have!" A literary wag last week put such thoughts into a political fantasy. Excerpts...
Riot Act. In Brighton, Mass., a wag advertised 15 apartments for rent, in the Brighton Citizen, gave the police-station phone number...
...bogus as the Cardiff Giant, for whether or not there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that a lost and frightened traveler would take the time to do so in grim earnest...
Make Mine Music (Walt Disney-RKO Radio), which has been described by one wag as the poor man's Fantasia, is a Technicolored musical blue-plate special, prepared for the 18-to-2 y-year-old age group which has heretofore proved least responsive to Disney films...
...Prepared to attend a luncheon of the tired people who worked out the steel wage-price formula. Menu feature: a Missouri ham. Said one alarmed wag: "I hope he doesn't appoint it to something...