Word: wagging
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...placid Dutchmen found something to laugh at in everything. The day after all newspapers were instructed not to report that anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...Jell-O script is turned out by a 33-year-old wag named Bill Morrow, whose salary is $1,500 a week, and his assistant, Eddie Beloin, who makes $560 less. Although the gags are theirs. Benny has a lot to do with shaping up the pro gram. Each Monday he gets together with his writers either in the bedroom of his 15-room French-Colonial mansion in Beverly Hills or in his Paramount dressing room to talk over his coming show. With Benny's secretary Harry Baldwin furiously taking notes, the show is roughed out on Monday, worked...
...Waters, Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife of Rhode Island's Governor, answered tersely: "Pluto." Among those it has interviewed Vox Pop includes Jock Scott, a Scot who has walked around Africa, the U. S. and Canada, and bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into electric fans. Done up in a shower cap with windshield wiper, rubber gloves and raincoat, Moran explained his theory of release...
...five oarsmen selected last Thursday by Tom Belles and his cohorts to stroke the heavy crews are Jack Wilson, last year's varsity stroke, "Wag" Wagner, Bristol Hall, Buck Anderson, and Bus Curwen, stroke of the 1943 boat last season...
After the second game of the World Series last week, a wag remarked that it looked like a Two-Buck Series. Heroes of the first two games were two Bucks: Detroit's Buck Newsom and Cincinnati's Bucky Walters...