Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midwestern football, a wag once said, is divided into four major leagues: Big Ten, Big Seven, Big Six and Big One. The Big One is Notre Dame. This year the Fighting Irish are no disgrace to the tradition that has made Notre Dame the adopted alma mater of millions of men-in-the-street...
...began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...
Something of a wag in a field where well-considered waggery is always good publicity, Composer Scott has long been notorious for his absentmindedness, his incredible stories about himself ("I tell people I do things, and they believe me," he complains) and the goofy titles he gives his works. Sample: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. Of his wife, who carefully checks over all his compositions, on the lookout for unintentional plagiarisms, he says, "She's a regular musical blotter...
Hollywood called Jezebel "terrific," predicted it would slow Mr. Selznick's Wind down to a breeze. Some wag suggested that the only one who might play Scarlett O'Hara after Bette Davis' performance was Mr. Paul Muni. Fact was that Bette Davis had gone full sail before the wind...
...described himself as "intentionally witty"; when his audience laughed, would wag his tail and yap, "I laugh heartily...