Word: wagging
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...wag remarked, when Siam is mentioned, one thinks of twins. Two Siamese natives, legally joined together, arrived in the U. S. They were Prince Prajatipok, second brother of King Rama VI of Siam* and his wife...
During the Parliamentary recess, ex-Premier David Lloyd George . found time to scurry back to Wales and, inhaling there his native air he became frisky, allowed his political tail to wag him and demonstrated, as he has often done before, that his bark is worse than his bite...
...every number shall be recalled for every possible encore, every female star (and especially the entrance of the debutante chorus) shall be greeted by whinnies from the house, every exchange of fun met with labored groans, and that thereafter the graduates who will mill out into the night shall wag their beards like the old man on the walls of Troy and say that this is the best show the Pudding ever gave, or not the best, depending on the individual sap-content...
Margery Allingham, the eighteen-year-old novelist whose first book, "Black'er-chief Dick", published by Doubleday, Page & Company, is a swaggering pirate tale of Restoration England, claims as literary godfather the novelist, William McFee. Since her first publishing venture. "The Wag-tail," a magazine written in a penny exercise book for which McFee was foreign correspondent and eight-year-old Margery managing editor, writer of the editorial, short story, serial, answers to correspondents and advertisements, the older writer has followed her career with friendly interest...
...been assigned Faculty Advisors and Student Advisors, who will descend upon you like the "wolf on the fold" and whom you cannot avoid except by strategy worthy of a Focheor a Hindenburg. Finally there are the Proctors who are to hold office hours this year and of whom a wag has said that they will act not merely as counsellors and friends but as spiritual advisors as well...