Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Robinson; produced by Jed Harris) tells of a prosperous Indiana farmer (Walter Huston) who falls in love with his hired girl (Mary James). Knowing that he is old enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her hand. While his neighbors' tongues wag and his family's hearts sink, he squires the unsuspecting young lady to carnivals and Chinese restaurants, strains his eyes going without glasses, sprains his tack showing off as a wrestler. After much stewing, he sends the girl away. After much scene-stretching, she comes back...
...favor. He had shaken out many an amateur plunger who had no business playing the market anyway. Such a shaking down, they felt, was what the market needed after its long rise. Most Wall Streeters felt that the bull market still has a long way to go. One seasoned wag quipped: "What I want to know is-what does Charlie McCarthy think...
Jack Benny, who makes self-ridicule pay, carried a $10,000 chip on his shoulder last week. The wag from Waukegan asked NBC listeners for 50-word statements be ginning "I can't stand Jack Benny because...." The contest began as a scriptwriter's gag, but Benny took it seriously. Jack will be able to pay the prize money, without damage to his skinflint radio reputation : it will all be chargeable to program promotion, deductible for income...
Died. Robert Charles ("Bob") Benchley, 56, a sly wag with an inexact mustache, a burbling laugh and one of the world's warmest wits; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Best-known and loved as an author (The Treasurer's Report; After 1903, What?) and cinemono-loguist (Love Life of a Polyp; How to Sleep), diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life...
...shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described as a "butterfly with teeth...