Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends until they are accosted by a man who says that he is an agent for the Department of Justice, whereupon one of the chorus girls pipes up "What's Justice?" When the Justice man informs Benny that he doesn't own the railroad after all, that ingenious wag turns the whole thing into the Black Creek Farm on top of a Pont House in New York, and then goes with great diligence into that great industry of "not raising anything...
Cricket tests between England and Australia are played for a non-existent prize, the "Ashes." When Australia won the first test ever played, a wag in Punch said: ''The body of cricket lies in England but the ashes are in Australia." That was in 1876; a cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign...
From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...
...unique among discredited statesmen in that he appeared really to believe what he was saying, even though he had been saying something very different ten years ago, or last month, or yesterday. He must have believed in himself, and in his dicta however incipient, for not even the chanciest wag would have dared to tell the seething followers of Arabia in Cairo that British rule in Egypt was a divine thing, and that to oppose it was heresy, but only a man who believed this and was ready to be garroted for saying it. His was that great personal magnetism...
...exhibit last week at Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier, between an educated chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite, was an educated politician. Behind a glass door marked MAYOR was His Honor Harry Bacharach. It was not long before a local wag attached to the door another sign: PLEASE DO NOT FEED...