Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month red-brick house he has rented in Georgetown, Washington confidently expects him to behave just like any other freshman Senator who happens to be 30 years old and a brother of the President. Teddy would like to be on the Foreign Relations Committee (not necessarily, as one wag suggested, as chairman), but will probably settle instead for a spot on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Labor and Public Welfare, or Commerce Committee. From such a post, Teddy's aides say, he can really do MORE for Massachusetts...
Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...
...right; it is the village women who set Augustine adrift on his voyage out of innocence. Shooting in the sea marsh, he has come upon the body of a young girl and carried it home to save it from being devoured by marsh rats. After the inquest, village tongues wag, stones are thrown, and Augustine leaves under a cloud of evil gossip to travel. He chooses Germany because he has cousins there...
Seeing in his 86th birthday with a flute of champagne, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received a baroque stone bench from the man perennially most likely to succeed him. Toasted Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, eliciting a faint smile and a wag of der Alte's steady old finger: "In order to forestall any bad jokes, I should say that this gift is not for use in retirement but for your relaxation...
...they erupt into it. In fact, Von Doderer's judgment on his people may be that, ignoring the urgencies of their time, they failed to safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese gossip." But it does not resemble Beethoven as much as it does another Viennese, Gustav Mahler. Like Mahler's symphonies, the book is ambitious, traditional though not conservative, often beautiful, but long rather than large...