Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomacy by Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
...actor, Walter Macken has demonstrated to U.S. playgoers in The King of Friday's Men (TIME, March 5) that he can trip the light fantastic tongue of Ireland as well as any man. Yet when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...
...been common practice to categorize the Radcliffe girl as intelligent, occasionally attractive, but generally plain. As one wag put it, "You only look at a Radcliffe girl once." This has been modified somewhat recently, but the second annual "Drumbeats and Song" production in Sanders Theatre Friday night presented something entirely new. There are those among the Annex group who are talented...
Neither by Wig-Wag nor Smoke. John L. Lewis, who loves nothing so much as an uproar, composed his face in a lugubrious cast. "All American workers," he said piously, are entitled to as big a raise as he had got for his miners. "To restrict American labor to a miserable 10% increase ... is an unwise, arbitrary action ... destructive . . . disrupting to the productive economy...
Your excellent article [on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, affirming the right of Communists to remain silent about their affiliations- TIME, Dec. 25] makes it clear that the line of decision of the court as to Communism strongly resembles the wag's poetic description of a snake trail...