Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more...
...screen Ernest Hemingway's most delicate episodes, the nights that Jordan and Maria spend together in a sleeping robe, are expertly elusive. Paramount's answer to one wag's question, whether the Hays Office would let sleeping bags lie, is: Yes, but don't go near the water. The closest study cannot determine whether either or both the lovers are or are not in or out of the bag at any time...
Said one Washington wag: "They have just buried the last New Dealer...
...faculty attending en masse without any embarrassing questions was a pleasure . . . Damned if they're not human. Some wag put out the hot dope that there was going to be a muster at midnight. Refreshments being available in the room added to the party in more ways that...
...bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been in use, research on finding foreign bodies still goes on in the attempt to bridge a surgeon's difficulty in not being able to see what he is after. Even...