Word: wagged
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...rock-'n'-roll set of London's lesser nobility, there is no more dashing, madcap wag than the Hon. Antony Patrick Andrew Cairnes Berkeley Moynihan. Last year 20-year-old Tony Moynihan left his cult of juvenile admirers behind, departed for Australia where he said he would take up sheep farming...
Though not everyone would agree on just what is the most important educational job in the U.S., the presidency of the Ford Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate...
...their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian. Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Yet as an Arab wag put it: "How can Jordan unite with Egypt? Tunnels?" Federation with Syria seemed a more practical first step...
...watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew the line one evening, however, when a naughty Calcutta nightclub, featuring a couple of near-naked girl dancers, rang him up to confirm his table reservation. Protesting that the Lama was a wag's logical victim, his secretary cried: "This is horrible! This could never happen in Tibet...
...state's senior Senator, Oregon's junior Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger drew guffaws on Capitol Hill by solemnly proclaiming the formation of the National Friends of Wayne Morse, Oregon's senior Democratic Senator already chasing his party's 1960 presidential nomination. Chuckled one Washington wag: "Dick should have called it the National Friends of Richard Neuberger...