Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with it. But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m. For months, with the war so quiet that-as a wag put it-you could hear a Ribbentrop, London's theatre functioned virtually as in peacetime, except for a boom in musical shows and a drop in prices...
...Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...
Just before the convention ended, a wag slowly lowered the mechanically operated shades at the convention hall's 16 windows, a delicate way of predicting curtains...