Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Deputy Dillon: "When we ask the Prime Minister what we are, he says, 'Look at the British encyclopedia.' " Said Deputy Opposition Leader Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, the wag: De Valera's dictionary republic was two-headed-one head was an elected President within the state, the other a crowned King outside. It was most peculiar...
...General Ike: "If all these people want to see me, I'm going to get out on the running board and let them."* He did (see cut) while Scotland Yard stood agape. After supper at Giro's (where General Ike had the first dance with his pretty WAG secretary, Lieut. Kay Summersby), the party moved back to Bradley's suite at the Dorchester. It broke...
...striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference wag...
Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll, goes to Washington, and is tossed out of the Senate when he tries to make a speech (see cut). Then the Army reversed its field and said it had not made up its mind yet. But it was firm on the rest of its bans. Army post exchanges...
Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...